Quotes About Compassion

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.

I have family members that are bipolar. One had a case recently that I witnessed, and it was very, very helpful.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.

We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

My own personal rule is to tell jokes that I think the person I'm making them about can laugh at, to go home and tell their family, oh, my gosh.

Tammy Faye, I pray for every day. I really liked her. I wanted to be in their family.

I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.

She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family.

By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

I'm the only one in - of my siblings, my mom and my family - that hasn't been affected by Lyme disease. It's been really hard for me because I'm the only one that doesn't really understand it.