Quotes About Compassion

That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn't belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.

I'd feel more comfortable talking to the blacks, or Hispanics, or the poor areas. I feel more at home, believe it or not.

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

As long as children are still getting kicked out of their homes by parents, getting bullied, commuting suicide, et cetera. it's definitely still worth talking about.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.

Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.