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Quotes About Compassion

I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.
~ Trevor Noah
Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
~ Khalil Gibran
My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.
~ Vandana Shiva
Women--wives and mothers--are the same everywhere.
~ Mary Boykin Chesnut
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.
~ Cleveland Amory
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
A Mother is the heart of the home
~ Mother Teresa
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood.
~ James E. Faust
I want to do something to help those who lost their parents, who lost their mothers and their fathers. Those are our people. Those are our children. Those are our parents.
~ Michael Jackson
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
~ Thomas Aquinas
There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.
~ Willie Nelson
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.
~ Joanna Russ
I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.
~ Leeza Gibbons
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
~ Eric Hoffer
My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.
~ Halle Berry
Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.
~ Gautama Buddha
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
~ Mother Teresa
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
~ Jennifer Aniston
My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where I asked if she could take me to the orphanage because I would like to adopt a little baby.
~ Kristen Stewart
If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.
~ Susan Sarandon
Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.
~ Gautama Buddha
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
~ Mother Jones