Quotes About Compassion

For so long people judged me and when people meet me they always say 'oh my god you're actually nice!'

No Ohio family should be forced to go hungry during the holidays or any time.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

I want to make it so that it's OK to not be OK.

If you had a friend going through a lot, you wouldn't give them a hard time for going through it. You'd be like, it's ok you're going through it. So offer yourself the same grace and dignity that you'd offer to others.

I just want people to know it's OK to really feel their feelings.

I can say I have forgiven my captors. That being said, I never want to see them again. I'm not OK with they did to me.

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK.

I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

For all the marathons I've run, including the Ironmans that I've run, immediately after the race, I clean myself up, do whatever I need to do to make sure I'm okay, and I get right back out there, and I cheer people on. Because it's the people who come in late in the race I find most inspiring.

I think it's okay to feel jealous, but it's how you deal with it that's the important thing. You have to be happy for your friends when they do well because you want them to do well. It's not a competition.

When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.

I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that.

I've always wanted to make sure people are okay, ever since I was a little girl.

Whenever you see someone who's having a rough day, it's one thing to ask if they're okay, because most people would just walk by. That can be life-changing to that person who's going through whatever they're going through. I'm that kind of person, so that's been my training for acting: just caring about people.

The way I saw the world as a child was not wrong. And it's okay to see the world that way. If it doesn't hurt anybody.

If I'm on a bus and an old lady gets on, I get up.

When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.