Quotes About Compassion

I've seen for myself how special Marie Curie nurses are and how important the support and care they provide can be in difficult times.

There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.

I love to take care of people, which is why I went to nursing school.

A woman can't teach a man how to be a man. But she can teach you how to nurture, how to care, how to love, and how to give.

I think as a woman it's in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourselves.

I'm not the kind of person who needs to be a mother no matter what. Life brings you people. Maybe I'll nurture someone who's not my child, like a friend, or an actor I'm working with who needs some love.

Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are times when we need to be nurtured.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

Pamela Eells has been the most amazing leader. She's such a nurturing person, and that is what makes a woman such a great leader: she's nurturing but also gets stuff done.

It's been in my nature to always be nurturing.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

It's great that mixed martial arts allows people to still be in touch with their animal side and duke it out in a cage, but I think it's important: we're still nurturing beings, and we should still have compassion for each other.

Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.

It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they're nuts or they're crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.

Sometimes God calls us to help and support individuals who may be flawed in their own way. But then who is perfect anyway? We just have to be obedient and follow the prompting of our spirit and expect nothing in return.

I often think about what love can inspire in the world, not just in the eyes of the object of your affection.

It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are.

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

If you have an opportunity to help others or incite change, it feels like a moral obligation to do so.

As you have more resources in life, it's your obligation to deploy those for the benefit of others.