Quotes About Compassion

You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him.

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.

Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.

I never knew Mother Teresa, but I admired her, especially in this day and age when there aren't many heroes.

I guess I'm always drawn to the underbelly of someone, really, as opposed to how heroic they are. I don't judge those sorts of people.

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

Jules has always put herself last I guess.

One of the things that happens in our regular lives is that when we're in moments of pain or feeling alone, we may hesitate to reach out to others because we may think - they're not going through the same experiences I am.

If I'm tired, I'm trying to still say hi to a fan or still talk to that person 'cause that one meeting with them can impact how they think of me for the rest of their life.

If you absolutely must express yourself with the use of animal hide, fur, antlers etc., then at the very least make sure it has been harvested responsibly and humanely.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he will defend - and he defended me.

I don't feel I'm taking the moral high ground, telling people to stop eating animals because I've done it. It just works for me.

I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.

I think when you give, that's probably the highest form of living. It's better than almost any feeling you could think of. It's way better than scoring touchdowns to me.

I want to use my platform to highlight and shed light on issues that are dear to me.

We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.

Now Hillary Clinton and I are 'companeros de alma.' And we share this basic belief: it's simple. Do all the good you can and serve one another. Pretty simple.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

Eliminate laws and dogmas that hinder the progress of the world and develop the heart in the form of compassion.

Empathy is the basis of a major conception of morality. • Morality Is Empathy. The logic of empathy is this: If you really feel what another person feels, and if you want to feel a sense of well-being, then you will want that person to experience a sense of well-being.

Two wrongs do not make a right; but three rights make a left.