Quotes About Compassion

To be active in a church social life or church activities or even a church mission to help the hungry or reach the poor, but really our dedication has to be born out of an infatuation with Jesus.

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. The million dollars, nothing.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

I want to look at my audience and see all walks of life. I want to do something for everybody.

If life becomes hard, soften it with random acts of kindness.

I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.

There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation; we can create a culture of life.

I was never one to stand on a soap box and say, "This is how you need to live your life!" It was never about that.

The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.

I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.

In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.

The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.

I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

Live in such a way that you embody true peace, that you can be peace in every moment of your daily life. It is possible for everyone to generate the energy of peace in every step.

No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply that you do.

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.