Quotes About Compassion

No one wants everyone to know how sick they are and everyone to see how much they are struggling. And when that seems to be the focus, of making sure everyone sees how sick you are, that's just confusing to someone that is trying to be supportive.

It starts with you in your own community. Just being kind to one another, being supportive of one another, and being loving and respectful. I can't tell you how far that will get you in life, just being able to do that.

I feel like smaller countries, other countries, they cheer, they support their people no matter what. We need to get a little bit more supportive of our people.

I'm supportive of social justice.

Just because you are friends doesn't mean you like the same kind of men, want to live in the same type of house, and both want your steak cooked the same way! I often disagree with my friends, however I make every effort to be sensitive to their feelings and be supportive.

We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn't give up on anyone who hasn't given up on themselves.

Write dialogue that supports the situation and the characters, as you find them.

If you are a part of a family, that family does not treat you badly when you are down, it supports you to revive.

Once we make the commitment to help ourselves, we are able to help others - and the universe supports our commitments.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.

There's always room to mend broken hearts, I suppose.

I suppose we're not supposed to judge people.

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose.

I forgive very easily, and I suppose, in the same way, I expect to be forgiven very easily as well. I grew up with that.

If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.

I think we have to be very careful how we treat people, even when we are supposedly trying to help them.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.