Quotes About Compassion

The sweats teach you that you can't carry grudges, you can't carry hatred in your heart. It'll make you sick, so you have to learn to forgive

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

Everybody reading the same book at the same time pulls people together. It does start a conversation. If you're going to read 'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane,' you're going to talk about heartbreak and loss and all of those things that people don't talk about as a community.

Looking in a mirror and telling yourself to feel better doesn't work when you're a girl, but finding something that you love to do, something that makes you a better person like volunteering to help others, will definitely make a difference.

I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

I would say that it's wrong to milk someone's misery.

There's enough misery in the world today without going out of the way to create more.

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

I really miss Diana. I loved her so much.

What a lot of the world missed was just how caring New York became post-9/11.

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

Seeing someone go down, you don't ever want to see anyone getting carried off on a stretcher or you don't want to see anyone missing a day or another game.

Everyone has their own mission in life and what they've got to do. You can't knock them for it. There's always a lot going in people's lives.

I don't have time for politics. There is a mission, and that is to save lives.

My whole mission in general, ever since I was fourteen, was to write music that would help people heal.

I have a mission, and that's to help people. That's what I want my music to do.

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.