Quotes About Compassion

Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs.

I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

With everything going on in the world I really just want what is best for everyone regardless of who they are.

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.

Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.

Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.

I have always got medicine I want to give to people.

What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

Look at that fat kid, in the audience. You want some pie you little fatty? I strongly dislike fat kids. Security, please remove him, that fat kid, over there, by the pies.

That's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.

I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is.

With any character, you want the audience to at least empathize.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.

Occasionally there are people who are not like me, and I forget that they're more introverted or shy, or just don't want to make a decision so quickly.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

Find out what people want and help them get it.

Nobody knows the trouble you've seen - and nobody wants to.

People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.