“But Physician was a composed man, who performed neither on his own trumpet, nor on the trumpets of other people. Many wonderful things did he see and hear, and much irreconcilable moral contradiction did he pass his life among; yet his equality of compassion was no more disturbed than the Divine Master's of all healing was. He went, like the rain, among the just and unjust, doing all the good he could, and neither proclaiming it in the synagogues nor at the corner of streets.”
Source: LITTLE DORRIT
“Who came up with the idea that telling the truth is easy? That's already a lie.”
Source: FUTU.RE
“Charity is compassion.”
“Where there is no charity, there is no compassion.”
“It was the winter after the most depressing election of my adult life, a low point for my faith in the polls, and I had started keeping an unofficial tally in my head of how much I trusted each new white person I met. It was a pitiful tally, because I had decided most of them would forgive anyone who harmed me, would worry more about vocal antiracism ruining the holiday party season and causing the cheese plates to go to waste than about the lives and sanity of the nonwhite humans in their midst.”
Source: The Office of Historical Corrections
“However, research with activists in the Civil Rights and antiwar movements of the 1950s and 1960s and of those who sheltered Holocaust survivors during World War II confirm that compassion, empathy, and social responsibility were core family values that motivated their actions. Once exercised in action, values of social responsibility and service to others may become integral to identity.”
Source: Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
“There is no triumph when you are standing victor over devastation.”
Source: You Are Not the Boss of Me - a Memoir by Wendy Rae
“When you open the floodgates to love, you gently, compassionately, and powerfully transmute everything based in fear into love.”
Source: The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight
“Real love is considerate but has no concern.
If you really love a man, you'll be considerate of his 'true need' but you won't show un-necessary concern for his foolish, stupid fantasies.
'Consideration' means you will see that this isn't a real need but an 'ego need', you won't fulfill it.”
Source: Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships
“Love know compassion, but no concern.”
Source: Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships