Quotes About Compassion

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

Here in America, we don't give in to our fears. We don't build up walls to keep people out.

I hope we build a son who's strong enough to stand up for other people. And if Donald Trump is out there teaching folks how to build walls, we're hoping to instil in our son the ability to know how to take them down.

Americans are at our best when we build bridges between us, not walls around us.

I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.

In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.

I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.

It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think people go out of their way to remain ignorant about how factory farm animals are treated.

We should always be trying to tear down the walls and say, 'I'm no different than you.'

Brave doesn't spread hate or bully the vulnerable. Brave doesn't put greed and self-interest over millions of lives. Brave doesn't cower behind lies and walls. Brave doesn't pit people against one another. That's what fear does.

European leaders cannot afford to be afraid. The refugee crisis is not one from which they can opt out. No magic wand will empower leaders to transport more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.

I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.

You have to be strong for people when you don't wanna be strong. You have to be clean-showered, clean, clean-cut for people. You have to set an example.

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

Everybody the same: We all got problems. We all want to be loved. We all wanna be happy.

I don't wanna say I'm anti-military as my mission is the exact opposite and I'm a unifying force. I'm there to show everybody that we're all the exact same.

People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them.

I wanna be a nice guy.

You wanna be there for everybody, but it's just not possible.

My mom and dad will look at me and my husband, and they're like 'I feel so sorry for this child! He's not eating fish sticks and pizza!' I'm like, 'We try to give it to him, but he doesn't wanna eat it!'

I could probably say one thing that I'm excited about is I definitely wanna be an entrepreneur and be a humanitarian and that stuff.

Like Lenny Kravitz, I wanna make the world a better place; I wanna unify people.

If you wanna get a report card on your faith, see how you are dealing with people who are really difficult to deal with.

I wanna make music that helps people.