Quotes About Compassion

It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.

None of our kids come into the world knowing anything about disliking one another.

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

I was never interested in writing a 'Mommie Dearest,' getting even with Mia - none of that.

We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.

I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.

Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now.

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

I think anger is a normal response to something horrible that someone has done, another human being has done, and to rob people of life, and that's actually healthy to have, to feel that. At some point you have to figure out, 'How do I let that go?'

I'm a normal person, and I'm going to make mistakes. I think people have to accept that.

When you meet people you don't want them to look at you and say 'poor you.' I just wanted to be treated like a normal person.

I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.

When I studied in DPS Mathura Road in Delhi, there was a school for blind exactly opposite to our school. I used to go there every week and spend time seeing how these students played cricket and did other things normally.

The people of western North Carolina are the only people I care about.

When you're just a breath away from North Korea, it boggles your mind that that exists, or that something like the Khmer Rouge ever existed. You wonder how we allow that to happen as human beings; how we allow the human condition to get so depraved and desperate.

When many Chinese escaped to North Korea during the Cultural Revolution, we embraced them. People in China have forgotten about this.

I'm extremely grateful I was born in North Korea. If that didn't happen, there's no way I could understand other people's pain.

There is a holocaust going on in my country, the world needs to acknowledge that and do something to help the people of North Korea.

I do think sometimes, I wonder is it true that every life is equal in this world? Do we care about North Korean lives?

Literature is always about bygone times. It's always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity.

It's not fair for little kids to feel bad about themselves for how they look.