logo

Quotes About Compassion

Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.
~ Steve Kanaly
I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.
~ Helen Hunt
I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.
~ Lara Jean Chorostecki
Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
~ Hanya Yanagihara
I write from the various experiences I live. Not every poem comes from my personal experience, though. It could be something that a friend lived, or a person from my community here, or a woman anywhere around the world.
~ Rupi Kaur
I had gone through a mother having dementia in the last couple of years of her life. She was in a nursing facility in my little hometown area of northern Illinois, so I got to see a lot of other patients there in various stages of the disease. I had a firsthand exposure to it in a pretty big way.
~ Joan Allen
I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.
~ Paul Farmer
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
~ Isaiah Berlin
I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.
~ Katie Couric
The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
~ Penn Jillette
There's always selfish behavior. There are lots of examples of people hoarding. But we've seen in this pandemic that the vast majority of behavior from normal citizens is actually pro-social in nature. People are willing to help their neighbors.
~ Rutger Bregman
The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.
~ Travis Bradberry
I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
I'm a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.
~ Lea Michele
Every person I have met who has gone vegan says it is the best decision they have ever made.
~ Lewis Hamilton
For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
~ Alexandra Paul
I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have since come to learn that it is an animal-based diet that is responsible for the overwhelming majority of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and all kinds of other problems.
~ Steve-O
I count myself as a feminist. I'm a vegan, so I believe in animal rights. I stand behind the Black Lives Matter here in the US. I want to help wherever I can.
~ Oliver Stark
I don't go around lecturing people and telling them they shouldn't eat meat. I just don't think that's terribly effective. I just try to tell people how I have personally benefitted from the vegan lifestyle.
~ Steve-O
People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I don't think you can fully call yourself a vegan if you wear leathers.
~ Lewis Hamilton
Going vegan was the best choice I could have made because I've learned so much about what you can do to help animals.
~ Sarah Jeffery
I realised what goes on in the egg industry and the dairy industry, so then I was like, 'That's it! Going vegan!' and I just kind of went cold turkey, basically.
~ Sadie Sink