Quotes About Compassion

There are people in the world who think only about themselves. They don't care what happens to other people so long as they get what they want. They put other people down to make themselves feel important. Then there are people who do the opposite; who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don't do things that hurt people. Which kind of person do you want to be?

But it would save somebody's mom out there, somewhere down the line. And that was worth fighting for.

Still, in the aggregate, at least, I wanted somehow to save them—send them to school, give them a trade, drain them of the hate that had been filling their heads.

Until those basic human responses that normally govern our daily lives—honesty, empathy, courtesy, patience, goodwill—feel like weakness when extended to the other side.

I believed there was an essential bond between the Black and the Jewish experiences—a common story of exile and suffering that might ultimately be redeemed by a shared thirst for justice, a deeper compassion for others, a heightened sense of community

just as Angela Merkel's willingness to absorb the tragic lessons of her own nation's past made a difference.

those basic human responses that normally govern our daily lives—honesty, empathy, courtesy, patience, goodwill—

there are people who do the opposite, who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don't do things that hurt people.

we will learn to live together, cooperate with one another, and recognize the dignity of others, or we will perish.

The only way my life makes sense is if, regardless of culture, race, religion, tribe, there is this commonality, these essential human truths and passions and hopes and moral precepts that are universal. And that we can reach out beyond our differences. If that is not the case, then it is pretty hard for me to make sense of my life.

Then there are people who do the opposite, who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don't do things that hurt people.

Unless we could recognize one another's reality, I'd argue, we would never solve the problems America faced.

honesty, and hard work, and empathy

Accepting that African Americans and other minority groups might need extra help from the government—that their specific hardships could be traced to a brutal history of discrimination rather than immutable characteristics or individual choices—required a level of empathy, of fellow feeling, that many white voters found difficult to muster.

persona que fue la única constante en mi vida. Gracias a mis hijas veo, día tras día, su alegría y su enorme curiosidad. No voy a intentar describir cuánto lloro aún su muerte. Sé que fue el espíritu más bondadoso y generoso que jamás he conocido y que lo mejor de mí se lo debo a ella. INTRODUCCIÓN

My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

You seem like a nice enough guy. Why do you want

She raised their three kids in spite of him, working long hours at a shoe factory until she had a hump in her back from bending over a sewing machine. But still, she's loving, kind, and sober. I don't get it. Ruthie

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

War is not nice.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.

Believe in something larger than yourself.