Quotes About Compassion

Rapid response is essential in the fight against hate.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

In the rare cases where I've had to cut a company loose, I just tell them why and wish them luck and hope they learn something from it. I don't spend more mental energy on it than I have to, and I try very hard not to hold a grudge or try to negatively affect them either. It's just done for me.

I love people, which might be a little rare for artists. I don't know if a lot of artists like people, but I do. I love love.

As actors, our job is to step into other people's shoes, So our capacity for compassion is like, next level, and that's why it's rare that you find a non-liberal actor.

Chris had the unique and rare opportunity to be shown during his lifetime how many friends he has and how much they care.

If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

Being present with a person and just seeing them for who they are is something that is so rarely given to us, and I try to do that with everyone I meet.

People in communities like Granger, Indiana, are rarely heard from on cable networks. But they, too, believe it is wrong to deport friends and neighbors who do no harm and much good.

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

Forgiveness gives you a chance to be fulfilled rather than be eaten up with anger.

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

My rational mind knows I am blessed. So many women - some of whom I've interviewed over the years - endure infertility and childlessness.

I think it's rational to assume the best in other people because most people are pretty decent.

What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

I'm someone who's always looking for hope - if there's a ray of hope, a shrapnel, shred, a flake of hope - because I take the misfortune or hard times of others very seriously.

I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.