Quotes About Compassion

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

The open and generous nature of the American people has the capacity to astonish and push boundaries. We crowdfund, sign petitions, dump buckets of ice on ourselves, and embrace new ways of relating to our environment.

Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.

I ultimately want to contribute something toward bettering human relations.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

I don't believe we ought to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. If people are in a same-sex relationship, and they want their partner to be able to have health benefits or be designated as a beneficiary in your life insurance, there's no reason we shouldn't do that.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

Had I not been in a relationship, I would have no issues falling in love with a midget. I wouldn't mind as long as she loves me and takes care of me and my family.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do...' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.

I have an MBA, but my Ph.D. is in people. Everything I do is about relationships.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.

On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.

I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

If you find yourself caring for a relative with dementia, the chances are you'll need help.