Compassionate Friends Quotes

#1. The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

Anthony Daniels

#2. Maybe the questions are more powerful than the answers.

Dan Brown

#3. Don't think that just because you made it to the next level that the haters and naysayers disappear. Remember, new levels bring new devils.

Steve Maraboli

#4. I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.

Aubrey Plaza

#5. Rain before sunset and we'll be in shelter.

Richard Adams

#6. Not only had Mr. Butcavage's questions been reasonable, he also had an unfortunate name and no friends in his neighborhood. He was probably a lonely person like her mother, and Pip felt helplessly compassionate toward anyone who reminded her of her mother.

Jonathan Franzen

#7. I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!

Sanaa Lathan

#8. Telling my children was the toughest part. But that's when you get strong, because you have to be strong for other people.

Amy Robach

#9. Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#10. Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.

Annie Dillard

#11. Death is part of life," he told her. "Without the one, it is hard to have the other.

Patricia Briggs

#12. Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends.

Julia Cameron

#13. I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I'm not a vegan for health reasons - although obviously I'm 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that's true. But I'm a vegan for compassionate reasons.

Russell Simmons

#14. What's more important than recycling? Producing something to recycle.

Gordon Osmond

#15. Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#16. THEY have the manners to be silent, and you, trusted as you are, the baseness to speak!

Henry James

#17. I notice perfume smells on his shirts and even later hours. I suspect he's having an affair but really don't care.

Martha Lemasters

#18. People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

Tracey Emin

#19. A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.

Shannon L. Alder