Quotes About Compassion

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

I've spent 30 years, actually maybe a little more, working to help kids and families. And I want to take all that experience to the White House and do that every single day.

I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

I'd like to believe there are people who are good, I know there are good Christians and good people from every faith who just want what's best for humanity.

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated.

In other words, a considerable portion of your extraordinary gift comes from the simple fact that you very much want to do good." -Master George

I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.

When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

I will continue to make mistakes and hope to be forgiven so I have to treat people the same way I want to be treated.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.