Quotes About Compassion

Being a voice for animals is something that has been so close to my heart since I was a little girl which was when I became a vegetarian. Animals have given so much to me throughout my life and I've learned so much from them.

I kind of feel for the vegetable world - the vegetarian world. It's almost as if people look at them like aliens or foreigners.

Being vegetarian makes me feel healthy.

I try not to eat meat, but I'm not saying that I'm vegetarian or vegan. I love animals, so I try and eat with a conscience.

I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

The day I set foot in Hyderabad, I saw an animal being hit by a vehicle. The city did not have a shelter for the bleeding animal, and I brought it home. In less than a month, our house was home to all kinds of animals - a buffalo with a broken hip, a blind mongoose, goats, dogs, cats.

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

We are all human beings. We all have the same blood in our veins.

When I used to return in the early morning after late-night programmes, the first people I see on the roads at the break of dawn are sweepers, newspaper vendors and milkmen. Since they were all from my hometown, I would stop to talk to them before going home. So I am quite used to their lifestyle and work.

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

People have been unkind to me, but I do not want to swear vengeance. I am a simple human being.

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

As an African-American, I think the way I treated others affected how people treated me. If people do attack you in certain ways, you can focus on it and be vengeful in your approach or take the high road - get over it.

We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.

I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.

I'm not really a vengeful person.

Friends don't always agree on things. I think you can disagree without being venomous about it. You don't stop being friends just because you disagree.

Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.

There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care to do, leaving them but little time to please themselves.

We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.

If only love can drive out hate, we have to remember that love is a verb. It requires action.