Quotes About Compassion

Hate speech, racism, and bigotry are intolerable realities that we must all come together to take action against.

The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.

My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.

I believe there's a place for goodness and love in everything I do.

In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.

I go out of my way to help people, but I don't tell people. Goodness is not about beating your own drum.

How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

Some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don't actually have a kind of faith system that they believe in. But, in their activity, the way they conduct themselves, there's a goodness there.

I value niceness. But now, as a grown person, I value goodness above that. Because niceness doesn't change anything, and goodness changes things.

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

Growing up, cancer was one of those things that I heard other people talk about. The word scared me, but I always thought, 'Thank goodness I don't have to worry about that.' Then, in 1998, I lost my father to cancer.

I think you need to think of yourself as a flawed human being with aspirations for goodness and never start to think, 'Oh, I am a good guy. These other people are bad guys. They're dumb, I am smart.'

With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.

Can there be any other gift in the world greater than the blessings and goodwill of people?

When you Google someone's name, it matters to me what shows up. Not the lies, but like, did you change lives? Did you do something while you were here?

My mother was a gorgeous person with no vanity, but she was a really good soul.

I definitely believe that tormenting other people because of the Bible and for that to be - for lack of a better word, Gospel... I think that is not very nice.

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

If you've got love you've got life, if you can love you can live.

You gotta give back - it's only right to give back to the people who need it and are less fortunate.

When you love somebody, you gotta be honest with them even if it'll hurt them.