Quotes About Compassion

That's what's great about my circle of friends is we all really look out for each other.

You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.

When you see the numbers who come to the circus, you understand that we don't get that by abusing animals.

We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.

Don't talk to me about civility when you're separating families at the border.

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

I think as soon as you start believing you're doing something superior to other people, then you start losing the plot.

Thinking about the sins of others give us a feeling of moral superiority. But thinking about our own sins is a humbling experience, which is generally much less fun.

I'm not a superman with a cape, I'm only a basketball player for the Celtics. But if I can make one child smile, I've done my job.

The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.

If I could choose to have one superpower, I would want to be able to make everyone love everyone!

It would be an amazing superpower to be able to make every person you meet feel better about the thing that makes them insecure.

If I had to name my superpower, it's probably empathy.

I'm very empathetic - that might be one of my superpowers.

To me, Bob was more than a superstar but it's good people get an idea of the real man.

I want people to see that you don't have to be catty and mean to be a superstar.

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

A doctor in a hospital told me that when the mujaheddin were fighting in the early Nineties, he often performed amputations and Caesarean sections without anesthesia because there were no supplies.

Children should speak out and take action to support each other to end bullying.