Quotes About Compassion

The years that remain are clearly limited. When you're 80, you attend a lot more funerals. A lot more people are having a hard time and are ill.

If you donate to a charity and save a few kids, 20 years down the line, there will be more people who exist because of you. In other words, you should consider your actions fully.

I think for me, as a gay person, I can convince a lot more people to be for gay marriage by not screaming at them and berating them and embarrassing them and belittling them, but by showing them that we're all exactly the same.

Most people don't go around talking about their miscarriages. It's not really something you shout about. What's more, people often feel embarrassed or even guilty about them.

Our country needs more people who listen, think for themselves, and treat each other with respect.

When I was a kid, I'd always tell myself if I ever grew up to have money, I'd help even more people than I do when I didn't have any money.

I think, more than anything, in times of crisis we should be shedding party labels.

I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

While my mom was flawed - as we all are - she loved her children more than anything in the world.

I do feel a need as a Mormon to speak out against things that are hurting people.

One of my best friends was gay and Mormon, and I saw how conflicted he was. It was the first time my faith didn't align with my mind and heart and the first time I was being taught something at church that I was like, 'Hey, this doesn't seem right.'

Because you know what happens when you say 'hello' or 'good morning?' You make a connection. And isn't that what being human is all about?

Being a nurturer isn't being a moron.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

There are no Hollywood stars speaking out for the elderly. They're forgotten, bewildered, and I don't think it's because people are cruel or don't care. It's because you don't want to think about your own mortality. I think people don't talk about it enough.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me.

It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.

The first and most important thing a man should keep away from is not doing harm of any kind knowingly to anyone, at any time.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

I learned the most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of the players.

I try to be conscious of others, put my best foot forward and show growth. I just try to be my best self - and I think that is the most important thing.

The most important thing is you have to want to do something for somebody other than yourself.