Quotes About Compassion

You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own.

People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered.

Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.

I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

Life is messy, and it's okay if you are too! We all screw up, that doesn't have to define us.

I know how hard it is to live your life with your wounds exposed to heal other people

Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.

I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout.

The essences of all religions speak of peace, compassion, justice and the interconnection of all life.

In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan -- a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.

You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you. And so I don't know. I know there is condemnation, but I don't feel that's my place.

We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to me, I don't think there's anything "lite" about that.

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent

You can get anything you want in this life if you help enough other people get what they want.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

Or help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in vain.