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Quotes About Compassion

The whole world is one family.
~ Sun Yat-sen
The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.
~ Pope John Paul II
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.
~ Shane Claiborne
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
~ Unknown
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
~ Andrew Vachss
What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.
~ Gary Yourofsky
Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.
~ Cassia Leo
When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.
~ Terri Clark
See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
~ Laozi
Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.
~ Mother Teresa
The horrors of the world in general upset me. I cry when I think about how lucky I am with my lovely little family.
~ Sara Cox
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
~ Charles Dickens
I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.
~ Rosie Batty
I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.
~ Joely Fisher
Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well.
~ Edgar Cayce
No one would barbecue their family dog. Why is a cow or a pig or a chicken different?
~ Mike Ness
World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget.
~ Ann Curry
Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.
~ Ricky Gervais
I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.
~ Brittany Maynard
I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
~ Eddie Bernice Johnson
The whole world is my family.
~ Pope John XXIII
If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.
~ Susan Sarandon