Quotes About Compassion

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

Love, joy and peace for the world, that's what I want...peace for the world and love.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.

Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

Be the kind of person you want to be with... If you don't like the people in your life, you are the one who has to change, not them.

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

...we cannot simply recommend love and compassion per se, for those unfold from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and do we really want an increase in ethnocentric love?

I want you to be nice...until it's time to not be nice.

In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance.

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, don not fault with others.

The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.