Quotes About Compassion

We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.

When I talk about divorce, I am not blaming the women I've married. It's not their fault.

I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves.

All of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to have meaning. For me that means making the world a little bit easier for women.

My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

What I've learned is you treat women right.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.

I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

When they go low, we go high.

On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural.

There's too much coldness in the world, " I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help.

She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.

Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.

Women instinctually know how to nourish each other, and just being with each other is restorative

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

I'm Power Because LOVE is Power.

Handling a woman is an art that no one masters.

If you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name.

If you have the power to put a smile on one person's face, you have the power to change the world.