Quotes About Compassion

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

While I've had so many different jobs - I've worked in law, I've worked in government, I've run for office - there's a common theme. The theme for my entire life has been about giving back.

It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.

Grant that I may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

He'll be okay now, I think." "Poor John. That was harder on him than me." "The bigger they are…" Mel laughed. Her

Let me seek to understand rather than to be understood. Where there is despair, let me offer hope.

coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. —Mahatma Gandhi

I don't know the weight of anyone else's burdens—only my own.

Medical Center in San Diego to at least start

Wanting a woman was something he knew quite well—but wanting to take care of a woman so that she would never hurt, never want, never be afraid or lonely—he had no experience with that. There had been beautiful women in his past; intelligent women, clever women, women with wit and courage and passion, but as far as he could remember, never one like Mel; never before a woman who had everything he'd ever wanted.

Feeling a little sorry for yourself? Do something nice for someone else. Particularly someone you don't know. That will put you right.

I don't have room in my life for hate. I tried it for a while. It didn't work.

Right away Noah's thought was, You might've sworn off men, but I bet they haven't sworn off you—not with that face and body. Shew. He was starting to feel a little warm. Let me seek to understand rather than to be understood. Where there is despair, let me offer hope. And dear God, could you please get her to cover up that cleavage for a while? "Look,

It's not what you get in life that will make you whole, but what you give.

Really, the cost didn't matter. No matter what she needed, even if it was the hospital, he'd find a way. He couldn't let her be sick. In less than twenty-four hours, all he really wanted was to see her smile like she had in that old picture Bobby had shown him. He