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Quotes About Compassion

One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life.
~ George W. Bush
I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.
~ Gillian Anderson
I don't know when the end of the world is, but there are people that I speak to every night, the end of their world could be tomorrow because we don't know when life will end.
~ Greg Laurie
Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.
~ Guy Kawasaki
In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.
~ Haruki Murakami
The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.
~ Henri Nouwen
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
~ Henrik Ibsen
They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.
~ Henry Rollins
Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.
~ Holly Black
How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?
~ Ingrid Weir
It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.
~ Irvine Welsh
When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight.
~ J. K. Rowling
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
~ Jack Kornfield
When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
~ Jack Kornfield
Sometimes there are those that have been dealt a bad hand at life and are dealing with some heavy issues. The least I can do is try to brighten a persons day.
~ Jackson Harris
After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
~ Jaclyn Smith
A lot of dreams don't come true in life. If you can make somebody's dream come true, you should.
~ Jameer Nelson
Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.
~ James Alan Gardner
I dont want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.
~ James Langevin
I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life.
~ James Van Praagh
Live your life for anyone but yourself
~ Jared Leto