Quotes About Compassion

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

There is more to loving someone than just making yourself happy. You have to want him to be happier than you are.

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity.

When I see the migrant workers broken bodies and eyes without hope, I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It makes me angry and helps me to keep fighting the oppressive system.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.

Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?

If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy.

The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice.

In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.

Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

I understand the importance of giving back, and that's something I definitely want to do.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.

I love animals. I couldn't eat a whole one but I'll split one with you if you want.