Quotes About Compassion

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us.

The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry.

A lot of times, we look at people who have disabilities as, 'Oh, we can't invite these people here or there.' And I hate that, because it's inappropriate. It's so weird to me when people say they don't have friends who have disabilities.

It is so important to share experiences with one another. Humans are so often in their own heads and not looking to others. But we have to realize that we are always invited to be a part of someone else's story - we are together in this.

San Suu's story will always involve politics, but the essence is the love story.

Many people have the heart to give back, but a lot don't know how to. I try to be the bridge for those people - whether that means getting them involved in one of my campaigns or inspiring them by showing them a blueprint of how to get others engaged.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

There's a big difference between being good and being nice. Being good involves tough choices - tough love.

Sometimes being your most authentic self involves accepting others for who they are.

I believe that you have to live a life that involves both courage and compassion.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

Altruism, especially involving basic freedoms, can be what shareholders value most.

I remember watching an Iranian film, 'A Separation.' When the film ended, I felt like going to Iran, getting that family together, hug them and just being with them.

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done.

We do not kill an Iraqi.

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

I've loved men that wear un-ironed clothes, it doesn't make me fall out of love. When you love someone, you should see beyond their image. It just makes me want to iron their shirt. But once you love a person, they could wear a garbage bag!

The irony of what I do is that the more you reveal someone in their frailties and shortcomings, the more we feel drawn to them and forgiving we feel of them.

Gender is irrelevant, and if you love somebody, you love somebody.

I think just loving people around you and looking after the people you love is what living is about and age is irrelevant.

Actors love to do good work irrespective of country and borders.