Quotes About Compassion

When are we going to realize that hating other women - no matter how much money they have or how far they've fallen - is just as bad for ourselves as it is for anyone else?

Sensibility is the power of woman.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out

It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn't make it right.

I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'

When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.

Of course I don't think any of the past will go away. The thing is, with me and Stephen, for many years, I put every spoon of food into his mouth, dressed him, and bathed him. You do not forget that experience.

Sometimes people think that if you're always helping people up and never hit someone with a hard foul, you're automatically a good sport. I don't believe that.

When you're around a sport awhile and sort of get to know everybody, you start to appreciate people more instead of just seeing a number and a sponsor and a competitor.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.

I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.