Quotes About Compassion

If you want your checkbook to follow your heart, make a donation to those doing work you support.

It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people.

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.

I am proud to be part of a community that only projects love and education and the support of one another.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia - I feed and clothe them - but I don't hold press conferences about it. I don't do it so you'll think what a nice person I am; it's private.

If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

To insist that no one can support the interests of the aam aadmi without being one himself is like saying that no man can support women's rights.

When other people share their stories, even if it's a parent who is fighting it, even if it's a sibling who is fighting it, it really does create this strange sense of community and support.

Besides, I have a sister who's straight. And I want her to know that I love her and support her.

At the end of the day what matters most is that we can cut through the pettiness and drama when it really counts and support each other.

My gift to the Elton John Foundation is intended to emphasize that we support freedom of all people to live their lives peacefully, without interference from others.

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

I moved in with a roommate who told me, 'Stay with me until you can afford rent. Don't give up.' People who supported me were like, 'If you don't have money for food, I'll cook you dinner. You don't have money for acting class? Let's get together and read lines.'

I'm ready to encourage and support people on their journey because I've been encouraged and supported. I just hope I make people proud.

The food bank is something I've always supported because there's no excuse for anyone to go without food.

Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

So many use dad's name, saying 'Johnny Cash would not like this' or 'Johnny Cash would do this' or 'Johnny Cash would vote for... ' Please, let his actions speak for who he was: A simple, loving man who never supported hate or bigotry. He was non-political, and a patriot with no public political party affiliation.

But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.