compassionate Quotes

“Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it’s impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else.”

“I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.”

“Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to decide things for himself…he had learnt the sound of laughter that was free from cruelty; he had learnt the meaning of beauty”

Two older sisters are coping with high school- boys, pressures of studying and fitting in. Grandma is grumpy due to having her house invaded but underneath is compassionate, and shares the old Dreamtime stories.