Quotes About Compassion

Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

Love the people you think you'd want to be with in the hereafter.

Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

Even your religious friends do not want to hear about God during a medical diagnosis.

We decided long ago that we didn't want Chipotle's success to be tied to the exploitation of animals, farmers, or the environment, but the engagement of our customers.

Please raise your children with love and non-judgement. Tell them everyone has the right to love who they want to love. It shouldn't threaten you or who you are.

The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.

Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.

Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers.

We must be the world we want to create.

They say learning to love yourself, Is the first step, That you take when you want to be real...

I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

With all the negativity in the world, I want to do something positive.

I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.

Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.

The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.