Quotes About Compassion

In the future, I would like to become a missionary. I'd like to go to countries where I have received much love as a musician and personally return all of that love.

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

Next time you meet a kid on street, give him or her a piece of advice that you wish, you had received at their age.

We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.

I like to make other people feel good, and if receiving my autograph brings them a little bit of pleasure, then I'm so glad to do it.

It's always a good feeling when you can help instead of just receiving help.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.

I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.

When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree - but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don't live in a world of shoulds.

You have to have a sense of what it looks like, not from the point of view of the policymaker but from the point of view of those who are at the receiving end of your policies.

You look around, and you think, 'Given the chance, if we can get away with it, people are going to be nasty to each other. They're going to pull up the draw bridge; they're going to draw up the ladder and try to live in this little bubble without giving anything to anyone else - without even receiving anything from anyone else.'

Something I practice everyday is Tonglin. It's Tibetan for taking and receiving.

I do have a bit of empathy I suppose, but it has come more recently as I'm knocking on 30's door and I think I'm getting there.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Friendships are reciprocal.

If you are good to people, they reciprocate with good behaviour.

When I made my final reckoning with the decision not to have kids, I also decided that I would use at least some of my extra time to better the lives of kids who are already here.

It is time to reclaim our nation's moral compass.

To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.

Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.

I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.