Quotes About Compassion

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

The reality is that it would be wiser and even kinder for politicians to be responsible about what they claim the NHS will do, because the pain of having raised expectations for parents who are desperate to start a family, only to see those hopes crushed, is more cruel than having said nothing at all.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don't just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

I definitely wouldn't wish death on anyone.

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way. I help panhandlers, but other people are, 'Oh look at that - why doesn't he get a job?' While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.

I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.

I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

I just wish that people were kinder.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody... as a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.

I often say that if I had one wish in this world, I would wish that every child could have a mother the way my mother were. And I never went without clothes, I never went without food... I never went without anything that a child needs. But above all of that, she gave me unconditional love.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

If you have not first pondered the entire situation of the man whom you wish to help, and if you have not brought with you instructions for him to follow henceforth in leading his life, he will not receive great good from your help.

With the pandemic crushing the world, I pray for everyone's health and well-being. I wish the world heals fast. Every morning I wake up with the hope that a vaccine gets invented soon to combat Covid-19.

I try not to pass judgment on anyone, and I wish they wouldn't pass it on me.

It's a little bit of a bummer because you're really trying to do good work and be nice and be a good person, and in the meantime... people wish negative things upon you.

Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.