Quotes About Compassion

All training for war, for killing, ceased. Now men fought to stop the killing.

One night in bed Jennings complained that Brand's monologues were growing harsh and boring. She asked him to please "gentle up.

Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

Don't try to change or tear your brother down, let him make his mistakes and he will come around.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.

Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.

How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.

If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.

To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

I believe this choice is ethical, and what makes it ethical is it is a choice.

Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

Who has the right to tell me that I don't deserve this choice?

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.