Quotes About Compassion

I'd worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ours, so I knew him well, and I knew when he had AIDS, that he had AIDS, but I would not write about that.

Ours is not a culture that cares much for the work of care.

But that's what we do in this great nation of ours, we are there to give each other a hand. That's what makes Aussies different to everywhere else in the world.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we're to blame, when really we should be focused on being gentle with ourselves.

Forgiveness for one's self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

People criticising me for my emotional outburst are not humans.

I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud.

Everyone has been an outcast at one point in their life.

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

I hope that dog lovers around the world will support the Cruelty Free International global campaign to end the use of dogs in outdated and cruel experiments.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.

I always wanted to work in charitable things, community outreach, etc.

I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hurt you can do, just ask somebody you love.

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney! But it's also the families that you create outside of your family.

I know there are millions of football fans who love this game, but can see the world outside it.

You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside. To know yourself, to know your nature, your mind will automatically be the compassionate one.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

The more I show what I'm going through, the more I can give answers, the more I can help those on the outside looking in.