Quotes About Compassion

I think for some people who leave Westboro, losing that sense of specialness feels like you've lost something really valuable and important. I had the opposite experience. I was so grateful to know that I wasn't uniquely evil. I was just a human being who had had this set of experiences that were outside of my control.

Offering thoughts and prayers are a valuable way to let loved ones know you care, but no one should offer them at the expense of action.

We should not need to be reminded of the value of human life.

I believe it's our responsibility to show our communities the value of all people, to celebrate different, and to take a stand for acceptance and inclusion.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

All lives have an equal value.

'M*A*S*H,' to me, was about something. It had value beyond the laughs.

Our people know that if they are sick, we will take care of them. If there are occasions of grief or joy, we will be there with them. They know that we value them as people, not just cogs in a machine.

We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

If something's really selfless, then there's really no value in it for you... there's only value in it for the world.

One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture.

What I've always valued is people.

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.

Fundamentally, if people don't feel like their lives are valued and they don't value their lives, they're not going to value their neighbors' lives.

We went through substantial periods of being dependent on some type of government service, whether food stamps, WIC, Medicaid, children's health insurance. And I had an acute awareness as a child of what happens when people go without access to health care. I also had an acute awareness that people's lives were not valued the same.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.