Quotes About Compassion

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston.

I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.

Someone who just has a really good heart - it's so attractive: someone who makes you feel beautiful and encourages you - makes you better.

You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.

You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present.

I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.

I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.

At the end of the day, you need someone who listens to you with no judgement.

This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!

If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.

When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.

Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that's the key.

I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.

But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

Love is not selfish. Love is something else.

True love freely gives.Love is costless, so give it.

You are capable of loving the unlovable. The grace of God gives you the power to love.It also takes conscious effort and decision to choice to love.

When a man strikes another man, he better have a good reason. There is never a good reason for a man to strike a woman.