All 10 Uses of
compassion
in
This I Believe
- Ultimately it's related to compassion, a quality in very short supply lately—and getting scarcer.†
Chpt 12compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- It would be foolish to hope that kindness, consideration, and compassion will right wrongs, and heal wounds, and keep the peace, and set the new century on a course to recover from inherited ills.†
Chpt 12
- But good can be as communicable as evil, and that is where kindness and compassion come into play.†
Chpt 12
- like me, the lady next door who scowls on her way to the mailbox, or the kids who strut down the street, or my atheist friend who enjoys a good conversation, each bear an undying soul and deserve compassion.
Chpt 14 *
- Man's ethical behavior should be effectively grounded on compassion, nurture, and social bonds.†
Chpt 18
- Her small gesture of compassion was the first I had experienced in a long time.†
Chpt 25
- It is comprised of compassion, care, security, and a leap of faith.†
Chpt 45
- But it hasn't eaten me away completely, maybe because the hollow place gets filled with other, more powerful things like compassion, faith, family, music, the goodness of people around me.†
Chpt 53
- Then there are those high points: romance and marriage to the right person; having a child and doing those Dad things, like coaching my son's baseball team, paddling around the creek in the boat while he's swimming with the dogs, discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails, his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of LEGOs.†
Chpt 57
- Man is a great enough creature and a great enough enigma to deserve both our pride and our compassion, and engage our fullest sense of mystery.†
Chpt 70