Quotes About Compassion

This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.

When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'

I can't imagine what it's like to go through life without shoes to protect your feet, and yet millions of kids do it. That's why TOMS is such an incredible company - it gives shoes to children who need them!

A lot of people think it takes millions of dollars to give back or inspire, but just you showing up means a lot.

When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a heck of a thing to do, to try to write someone's story.

To think that some people don't have clean water was mind-boggling to me.

I think people need to be open minded to everyone.

I believe in the First Amendment. But I also believe we should be mindful of how other people feel.

I try to be more mindful and less greedy.

As a writer, I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my emotions are just my emotions.

I don't buy any leather goods or anything made from animal products - no down, nothing. It's something people should be mindful of.

I do some compassionate mindfulness every day. It's like a Buddhist thing. I tell myself that I'm doing a good job, that kind of thing. It makes me feel better.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.

The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope.

I'm of the mindset that God loves everyone.

I've always been of the mindset that relationships can be different and relationships can go bad with different people. That doesn't mean they're going to be a bad relationship with me.

I get out in the 'hoods. I want to go to the worst, the grimiest places. That's where I want to be. Those are usually the kids or the communities that kind of get left behind or forgotten about. I feel like I was in that situation at one point. That's where my mindset is and that's what I stand for.

I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.

I'm on the side of miners and their families. And I'll never walk away.

Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it.

We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis.

A finance minister should have a basic understanding of the country, know where the shoe pinches and, hence, have some compassion in policy formulation. An ability to understand economic issues should certainly be there.