Quotes About Compassion

You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

Work without love is slavery.

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.

Even if your work touches one person, that's an amazing gift.

I love children. I work with UNICEF and one of the reasons I love that is because they deal specifically with children. For me I think it's just really important to always embrace that side of you.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.

I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.