Quotes About Compassion

There is no one that we can afford to throw away.

If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you're in fact probably saying is you're exercising a prejudicism of low expectations.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

It's not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I love them kind of people.

Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

How many times did your parents tell you to eat your food because there were starving children in Africa? Throwing away food was considered a sin in my family.

People don't realize that we're spending money throwing food away rather than feeding people.

There are curveballs that are thrown at you, and you just have to get over it and forgive... if you believe you're perfect, and you don't believe in forgiveness, you're not meant to be married.

When people are dying, bureaucracy should be thrown out of the water.

I'm not one who thinks that people should be locked up and thrown away the key.

This question: 'How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?' has been with me ever since I was a child.

Thugs who brutalize elderly people should be punished severely.

If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about similar levels of discomfort in animals seems to be a case of mistaken moral priorities.

Westboro would quote this passage from the book of Leviticus that, for them, shows that the definition of 'love thy neighbor' is to rebuke your neighbor when you see him sinning. And if you don't do that, then you hate your neighbor in your heart.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

From being in Tibet and being around Tibetans, I feel like I've learned so much more about what brings a person happiness, about what actually brings myself happiness.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

I think you have to see the high highs and the low lows to get to the core of what makes us tick as people.