Quotes About Compassion

I want to do good, and I want people to be happy, and sometimes when you're a people pleaser, you spread yourself too thin.

I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

When you start to think of revenge, you start to think of hate. I don't believe in hating people. It's a retrogressive thing.

The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

People make mistakes, and bad things happen.

Things happen in 'If This is a Man' that are beyond ordinary daily experience, but it is still us to whom they are happening, and the understanding Levi seeks is no different in kind from that sought by Shakespeare in 'King Lear', or Conrad in 'The Heart of Darkness'.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

I've made social mistakes. We've all made our mistakes and tried things we kind of wish we didn't, but we plan around it. Things happen in situations that are unique and different, and no one is perfect.

What fixes your spirit when Ferguson happens? When Trayvon Martin and those kind of things happen, they hurt your spirit; it hurts your heart and your soul. You need something to fix it.

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.

When you're a good person, good things happen to you.

I'm from L.A. I've seen a lot worse things happen than a guy taking some glasses.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

I think I'm a humanist. I believe all humans should have equal rights to live, express, flourish, love and dissent, irrespective of their gender, caste, class, socio-economic strata, disabilities, political stance, religion or faith.

I think people forget that it doesn't take a big donation to help someone, just a lot of little donations.