Quotes About Compassion

The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.

All I can say is if you check my record going back a long time, I have stood with those who are hurting. I have stood with those who have no money.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.

Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

I've always wanted to do the right thing by a horse, that's never changed, its just that as my knowledge grew I've been able to offer the horse a better human being, as time has gone on.

Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not.

It's all about God. May He forgive us for every time we start to think it's actually all about us.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.

I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.