Quotes About Compassion

I could help a lot of people's kids that are going through racism or getting bullied. That's what I wanna do.

I definitely wanna open up some assisted-living facilities around my city.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

I always believe that if you have a good heart, you just want to do what's right. You don't want to step on anyone.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

When you love someone and care about them, you want what's best for them, and it's always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren't what's best for them, how hard you try.

It's okay for me to make jokes about disabled people and people with horrible diseases because they make me uncomfortable, and I don't want to be like them.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

There's so much negativity on social media, I don't want to add to that.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.

I dreamed of being a nurse because I wanted to tangibly help the people I saw every day.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

Initially, my decision to stop eating meat was motivated by fear of spiritual consequences, but right away I found that not eating meat made me feel good about myself. It increased my self-esteem, which I found so rewarding, I wanted to do more.

I joined Planned Parenthood because I wanted to help poor women with real health care needs.

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it's what created North America.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.