Quotes About Compassion

It's rare for someone to give you a helping hand when you're going through rejection.

My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.

Why did I write 'The Emperor of All Maladies?' A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma, having undergone two remissions and a relapse, asked me to describe what she was battling. By the time I had finished answering her, I realised that I had written 600 pages.

I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

A leader is not born out of the blue. You have to know the pulse of the people from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Gujarat to Guwahati. You have to relate yourself with them, and only then does one become a leader.

Everyone can relate to me no matter what race or who you are or how you feeling.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

I know what it's like to be left out... I certainly went through a period of time where I got made fun of and people were so mean to me, so I can really relate to that.

For me, I feel like I relate to a lot of people.

People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous.

I think I've inspired a lot of people, and I'm one, if I get a letter and someone's in serious shape, I'll call them. I relate to these people.

You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.

I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?

Having two children with autism, it makes you really think about how we do relate to each other.

I'm always excited to create space for people to relate to one another.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

I think it doesn't matter, the color of your skin; it doesn't matter where you are from. It matters how you relate to people, how you connect with people, and the open-mindedness with which you approach the subject. That's to me what matters when you are making a film, not who you are or where you are from.

In a non-supernatural universe, there's just character, and it's humanity and human beings and how they relate to each other.

If you can relate to what another person is going through while giving their experience room to be its own discrete thing, you're probably a crackerjack emergency contact.

I have ventured out and written about real-life experiences that I haven't gone through myself, but I've known people to go through them. In the past, I've always written about my experiences and people related to that, but there's a lot of other things that I've never written about that people have gone through.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

I just believe pregnant women need a familiar face, someone who isn't related to them who they may have all this emotional past with, to be there, just for them, during the birth.