Quotes About Compassion

Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives.

I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

I want to understand rites of passage I've never experienced, like motherhood.

I want to be clear that I only share passages from the Bible as a gesture of love.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

My grandmother has passed away, but she was sanctified. I would not want anyone in the church to judge her because of what I do.

In our time, there are still many, like those in the Good Samaritan story, who being of the religious classes in that time, purposely crossed to the other side of the road, and passed by the injured and bleeding.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

My mom's best friend growing up was diagnosed with AIDS, and he basically raised me when my mom was launching her business. Although I didn't understand at the time what HIV or AIDS was, I knew that's what he passed away from.

A lady passed me a note in Australia one time that said, 'My daughter gets bullied at school because she has two moms, and you know, we told her just to tell them to watch 'Modern Family.'

Before passing a judgement on somebody just give it a thought about what he or she went through.

As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.

With the passing of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, who had just entered his 100th year, the world has lost one of the greatest judges and jurists of all time and also a fine human beings. He used his extraordinary juristic and intellectual gifts to help everyone he could and to address all forms of human suffering.

We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence at its disposal.

Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.

Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

Don't feel bad about it," the sergeant said. "You never know when it's the real thing." Afterward he reflected on how he had been alone on the street, and how they came at once, unquestioningly, thinking that he needed them, and the memory of that moment remained with him always, like the lost innocence of a child.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.

There, but for the grace of God, go you and I.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth.

In each of us is an infinite capacity to love, but only a finite capacity to hate.