Quotes About Compassion

Like most people I knew, I thought drug addicts were the kinds of people we see in doorways in neighbourhoods most of us try to avoid - people obviously strung out, often homeless and possibly psychotic. I didn't think my son could become addicted, but he had.

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.

The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

I love my son, but I was never there for him, so I understand why he hates me.

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

I wouldn't believe there was something 'wrong' with my son.

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.

The purpose of my songwriting is to put the things I have been through in a song in order to help others who may be in a similar situation.

There is another person on the other end of the chatscreen. They're our friends, our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters. Let's take a stand to reject hate and harassment. And let's redouble our efforts to be kind and respectful to one another. And let's remind the world what the gaming community is really all about.

But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.

You can't force people to feel in a certain way, and the sooner you understand that,the better. I feel everything has its way of working.

My motto is to help people love themselves sooner. I can't teach them how to do that. They have to figure that out on their own - that's their journey.

The bottom line is people are people, and the sooner we realise that, the better off things are going to be.

It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of empathy across these experiences.

The criminal law is not meant to respond to every sorrow and grief.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

As much sorrow and grief as came from 9/11, there have also come positives.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.