Quotes About Compassion

People get really irritated by mental illness.

I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.

Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.

A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one.

I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won't.

Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.

Mental illness affects everyone.

I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.

I have what some people consider to be a 'hippie' mentality.

I want my kids to have a balanced view. I don't want them to grow up with a close-minded corridor-vision mentality. I want them to have a good understanding of the different sections of society.

When you're mentally ill, sometimes you're so self-involved that you forget how much you're hurting all the people around you who love you so much, because you don't understand that you've got to get help.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because they didn't ask for it! There's no choice to it.

There is nothing compassionate about abandoning the mentally ill to the streets and making the rest of us live in their bedlam.

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

The essence of justice is mercy.

I'm so grateful for just the inherent mercy of life.

Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.