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Quotes About Compassion

Before being an athlete, I'm a person, a human being, like the ones Open Arms are saving every day.
~ Marc Gasol
I am someone who will listen and someone who has an open mind.
~ Gladys Berejiklian
Everyone needs an open mind and an accepting heart. With a combination of these two aspects, you will be able to communicate sensibly.
~ Lobsang Tenzin
Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an open mind.
~ Diane Ladd
I always want to listen with an open mind.
~ Rana el Kaliouby
If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all.
~ Andrew Haigh
The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
I want to share what I have, and I'd rather share it with people that are a little bit more open-minded.
~ Savion Glover
I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.
~ Jason Reitman
People who are open-hearted and open-minded touch me deeply.
~ Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
I was raised in an open-minded home. I was raised a Christian, but I was raised open-minded Christian - one to accept people, love people, not pass judgment.
~ Meghan McCain
We, as a society, need to be open-minded.
~ Prateik Babbar
I always set out to be open-minded and open-hearted in everything I do.
~ Melissa Leong
If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.
~ Annette Bening
Opening up your life to a dog who needs a home is one of the most fulfilling things you can do.
~ Emma Kenney
'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good.
~ Jon Favreau
Any responsible essayist or memoir writer who's writing about herself is not just saying, 'Here's what happened,' and opening up her diary. There needs to be consideration of other people's feelings.
~ Faith Salie
Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.
~ Sharon Salzberg
I've always had a huge dream of opening an animal shelter.
~ Shanice Williams
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.
~ Joan Halifax
Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.
~ Polly Toynbee
Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.
~ Blase J. Cupich
Love grounds you. It orients you. Love brings your awareness to others and yourself. Love opens your mind and heart to others and yourself. Love settles you and gives you balance.
~ Gary Zukav
I think me having kids is helpful. It opens up a new little area of your heart.
~ David Walton