Quotes About Compassion

We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.

I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas.

I wanted to save people's lives. I wanted to do something good in this world.

I learn something new about love every day. For example, loving yourself is just as important as loving other people.

My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every time I read it.

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

'Broken' is a story of two broken people coming together. I think every one of us can associate with it, as we all have faced a heartbreak sometime in our life.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

I think we forget sometimes how blessed we are to be able to help others and make a difference!

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves.

Just because somebody wants to be alone sometimes, it doesn't mean they don't love you.

I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.

Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.

There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere.

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

If you don't know where to find self-love, you're going to spend the rest of your life trying to find it somewhere else.

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

My son has died of AIDS.