Quotes About Compassion

If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.

Every day, I get up, and I fill the bird feeders and put out fruit and other food for both the birds and any passing mammals. Is that pointless long-term? I have no idea. All I know is that on this day, in this moment, it makes a difference.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.

I encourage people and their different points of view.

It's one thing to be sitting in a classroom and have a teacher tell you how to treat other people; it's a whole other thing to watch, week after week, somebody's life spelled out to you in an emotional way: That lesson is something that will stay with you forever.

I was never the bully: I was always the one trying to clean up the situation.

Men are not the enemy, and we have to be clear about that.

I don't really believe in cliques - I think everyone can be friends with everyone.

In the past, we had several dog butcher shops in Cheongnyangni, but I closed almost all of them down through various measures.

I don't see why people are so concerned at what other people do behind closed doors or in their lives.

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

A company's ethical behavior is ultimately triggered by some sense of caring. And care is a sense of closeness to someone or something. A company must bring value to whom or what it is close to.

Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

The closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we're all same.

They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart.

We'd get these boxes of clothing in the mail, and my mom would say, 'What makes you think all this is for you? You've got a sister right behind you.' So then I realized, we're all in this together. We have to help each other.

I was a class clown, but I'm not a bully.

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

David Cameron needs to get his head out of the sand. He and his colleagues need to see what poverty is really like.

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.