Quotes About Compassion

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

I never approach a character from a negative place.

I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way.

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

If you keep a clean heart with your money, you will have a clean karmic cycle, but the day you do something negative to another person, that karmic circle will start to bring you down.

We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.

I think you achieve a lot more through love than negativity.

Love is something we should all be saying yes to. If you're willing to love someone then people should support that. In a world full of such hate and so much negativity, it feels like love is something we should all just be sharing.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

Generosity and kindness always feel good to give, and it never feels good to give grief or negativity.

I'm interested in elder justice and what we can do about elder abuse and neglect.

Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

I am a voice for innocent animals who are being neglected and dumped by the millions at shelters.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.

If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?

How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?

I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.

To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

Having been hit by drug addiction, knowing how many are hit by it and what a big problem it is in our neighborhoods and our culture, I feel a responsibility to do something. I can see what's wrong with the system - that we have to recognize mental illness as we do cancer or broken bones - and how we need to make it better.