Quotes About Compassion

As of the writing of this particular book, I have 43 "close friends,"* 196 "good friends,"** and 2,200 "affable acquaintances."*** *These are people I would phone immediately if I was diagnosed with lung cancer. ** These are people whose death from lung cancer would make me profoundly sad. *** These are people I would generally hope would recover from lung cancer.

A ten-year-old boy doesn't want a hyper-dexterous giant to choke, just as a ten-year-old girl doesn't feel good when Britney Spears has a nervous breakdown on live TV. Only an adult can feel good about someone else's failure.

The matter forever, you have to matter to those who don't care.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

If we can forgive what's been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.

If we can forgive what has been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villians or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world. But we still sit here, waiting to be saved. While we're still victims, hoping to be discovered while we suffer.

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. Hero isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.

Please know that there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self conscious. We are all full of shit. Go love someone just because, I know your heart may be badly bruised, or even the victim of numerous knifings but it will always heal even if you don't want it to, it keeps going. There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It's up to you to find them.

Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.

I'm giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody. Even when I'm not getting paid, I can give love and happiness and charm. You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.

When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just waiting for their turn to speak

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

Suicide is very contagious.

You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

Our humanity isn't measured by how we treat other people, our humanity is measured by how we treat animals.

Because I can't save anybody; not as a doctor, not as a son. And because I can't save anybody, I can't save myself.

Scratching Yogi's ears Michelle says 'That's just part of his job, the comforting. That's what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he's more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being. This is a trait that more people should encompass.

Stick and stones may break your bones and words can kill you too

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

Sui­cide is very con­ta­gious.

When we remember someone as a drunk, a liar, a bully, we're only creating an excuse for our own poor behavior.