Quotes About Compassion

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

You never know how many people are compassionate about something, especially when it's not happening to you. You just hope somebody's out there helping.

I guess you never have any clue how many people are in your corner until something tough happens.

Coronavirus has shown us how much we depend on one another.

The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.

Being able to give someone a hug from the heart, it's healing. It's healing for yourself and healing for others, and we need a lot of that.

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

I'm not homophobic or anything like that, but when gay people come out, it's like, 'You didn't have to tell me that, because I'm still going to still give you a hug.'

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

I'd love to have a big old hug with Richard Simmons.

I'm not a psychopath to hug somebody if the person doesn't want to talk to me.

In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.

I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a wonderful cocktail.

My wife is a brilliant, hugely understanding person.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

If I can make a girl's day by hugging her, hell yeah, I'll hug the crap out of her.

I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.

I'm a touchy-feely person so I can't bear not hugging. It makes me want to cry.

I didn't have a great childhood, and neither did Debbie, my wife, so we both try to give the kids not only the material things we never had but also the hugs and the love.

Both Frankenstein and the Hulk are looked at as horrific, but they're just trying to find their way, like all of us.

Everything that happens in the life of a human being, especially artists, who are supposed to be more sensitive, yes, it can affect you. In Lebanon I saw 10- and 12-year-old kids walking around with guns, and I understood how much human actions affect people.

I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.