Quotes About Compassion

The attitudes towards mental health must change

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.

This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

God gives us health so that we may serve the sick.

True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

Health care is at the beginning of a dialogue with the world... as health care providers, we have to ask ourselves this question: What stories are we not hearing?

Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health.