Quotes About Compassion

I will never know what it's like to walk down a street and feel unsafe. No one should have to experience that feeling.

We must do everything possible to protect the lives of everyone and help make sure no one in this country feels unsafe.

I want to connect with people that feel unseen.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.

You can be selfish by being too unselfish at times.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

Friends frequently ask how I, given my politics, dealt with seeing my brother and his companion, Richard, together for the first time. They are surprised when I tell them it wasn't as unsettling as I had anticipated. Richard was smart, funny, kind, and clearly devoted to Curtis. They just clicked.

People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We live in homes with mirrors.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.

Carers are important. They are the unsung heroes.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

I can't say there was a last straw because there have been so many straws, but certainly the horrors at the border, separating children from their parents, the torture, the kidnapping and the incarceration of them in cages was unthinkable, unbearable. When an opportunity presented itself to me to do something, I needed to take a leap.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

My calling is to help people, to teach people, to share with people, until I die. I can never stop doing that. I can't, and I don't want to.

What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say 'enough,' they are called selfish.

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

When I say, 'I stand for equal rights,' I mean equal rights for all persons... from the moment of conception until natural death. I mean that I believe in the equal human dignity of all persons, no matter the 'contribution' they make to society.

Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.

At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people.

I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.