Quotes About Compassion

My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.

Many of the girls who were in the orphanage with me became either nurses or social workers.

When I was younger, I went with a friend of mine to Nairobi for 3 months and helped teach in an orphanage's school. It was a great experience and made me truly understand that giving back - by giving time, not just money - was so rewarding.

Before I pass, I want to start an orphanage and name it after my mother. She worked with kids all her life.

Angelina has a rule that she adopts children only when they are orphans.

Now that our mother has died, we're two orphans, Angie and I, so she has a deep understanding of the orphans she adopts.

We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

We should treat other countries the way we want to be treated.

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

I grew up with a special-needs brother, and the separation from other kids is so extreme. We've got to break down those barriers.

My daughter told me, 'Daddy, if I don't make it, I don't want you to stop helping these other kids.' So that's where I've been able to go on. I tell people - and I really believe this - I didn't lose a daughter; I gained so many other kids.

Leadership is service to others.

Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don't think the movie would work otherwise.