Quotes About Compassion

And just because someone doesn't understand doesn't mean they don't want to.

It's difficult to change, because I have to admit that I have been previously living in a less compassionate and loving way. Sometimes we just want to be right instead of fully conscious.

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

The strength of a friendship can be measured by the weight of the burden it's willing to share. (If you want to test this just ask someone to help you move.)

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

We all have different needs, thoughts, ideas, visions, languages, colors, and creeds, but we all want peace and happiness.

I may not give you as much love as you want, but I will give you as much as I have.

Be that loving person you want to love.

If you ever want to love someone, love yourself unconditionally first.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

I'm concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you're poor, somehow you're shiftless and lazy.

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.