Quotes About Compassion

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

Life is supposed to be lived for God and for others.

If you want your life to get better, sometimes the best thing you can do is to help improve somebody else's life.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched.

Life's too short to not be around nice people.

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a holistic approach.

Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life.

That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

What's hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn't feel like enough. But it is.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.