Quotes About Compassion

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

I can't let darkness be what guides my decisions. I can't let that be what guides how I treat people. I can't let that be what drives my art, either.

Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do.

I can relate to ranchers and roughnecks and professional game guides and farmers and homemakers.

When both my parents were unwell I was in that situation that will be very familiar to many women. I had young children in one part of the country, and elderly unwell parents in another. I was in a constant state of guilt. Was I there enough for my mother? Was I there enough for my children?

All the things I've done are about duty and guilt: trying to do your best to better other people's lives.

If a child had another disease, we'd be open about what we were going through, but addiction is stigmatised and comes with shame and guilt.

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

We're all guilty of slacktivism, or of feeling like a savior for taking two seconds of your day to think about someone else.

If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.

We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make.

I can be a little bit guilty of being too nice.

I always feel guilty later if I behave rudely with anyone.

I think there's an incredible amount of people who know not only what we're feeling but know people who have lost their lives to gun violence.

We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.

Using a gun is a coward's way to hurt someone.

I never had the guts to go to Calais. I didn't see for myself the conditions people were living in, or hear their stories firsthand. That doesn't sit well with my conscience.

I'm not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That's just not the guy I am.

The people who know me know: I am a good guy with a big heart.

I've had friends who say that they would never forgive cheating, but then they fall in love, the guy cheats, and they forgive him. I don't know what I would do.