Quotes About Compassion

People treat serious subjects so seriously, which is so obvious a way of dealing with them. I'm always thinking that the best way of dealing with them is to show people as human beings.

I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them.

Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry.

I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.

I will always go for the submission instead of hurting my opponent.

If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

Ultimately, I do my best to not subscribe to things that are unnecessarily negative, harmful, or hurtful to somebody.

Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.

Trying to imagine what it's like to be someone else is never a substitute for actually living that way, for acknowledging the respect that we need to have for each other's experiences.

I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough room for all of us to succeed.

You have to be nice to everybody, and then people want you to succeed.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

Sometimes when I'm alone I Cry, Cause I am on my own. The tears I cry are bitter and warm. They flow with life but take no form I Cry because my heart is torn. I find it difficult to carry on. If I had an ear to confide in, I would cry among my treasured friend, but who do you know that stops that long, to help another carry on. The world moves fast and it would rather pass by. Then to stop and see what makes one cry, so painful and sad. And sometimes... I Cry and no one cares about why.

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.

If they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it the motherfuckers who need god we'd be aight

You know it's funny when it rains it pours. They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

my life was lived through falling rain so call on me if there be pain

If I had an ear 2 confide in I would cry among my treasured friends But who do u know that stops that long to help another carry on The world moves fast and it would rather pass u by than 2 stop and c what makes u cry

Just because you lost me as a friend, doesn't mean you gained me as an enemy. I'm bigger than that, I still wanna see you eat, just not at my table.

You can use head turning yourself when a dog starts to get worried or frightened if you have approached him impolitely. If a scared dog starts to bark or growl at you, stop moving towards him, turn your head to one side and this will help him feel better.