Quotes About Compassion

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

I didn't know you were having a hard time. I really am unqualified to be a teacher. Hurting you there...I'm really sorry.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

If we think of our heart, rather than our purse, as the reservoir of our giving, we shall find it full all the time!

I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'

I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.

It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I won't see him.

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep.

He just got his neck broke one time, I'm not tryna break his neck again, that's not what I fight for. I fight to have fun, not to hurt nobody.

Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the same time, you have to know your worth.

Keep compassion close to your chest at all times.

I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.

Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies