Quotes About Compassion

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.

When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there's a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.

You can only beat a guy down so far before he has a tendency to start listening to what you're saying.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

Men can be tender, too.

I pray for John McArthur. I pray for, that God would tender his heart. I pray that he would have eyes of understanding.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul.

The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

I want everybody to succeed. It's just part of who I am. I probably do that with my kids tenfold. I'm as insecure as the next person, but it doesn't ever take me over.

If human rights are an attribute of being human, then we must consider the fact that tens of millions of displaced people around the world have been rendered less than human.

Our nation absolutely has what it takes to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic that's claimed tens of thousands of our loved ones. We have the talent, resources and technology.

I think the only way for us to move forward is to take care of each other and understand each other better and become cells in a communal body that moves forward in coordination and not in aggression or tension. A lot of that has to do with giving people the chance to express themselves, but also giving people the chance to feel important.

If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame.

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.