Quotes About Compassion

We are surrounded every day by countless acts of immeasurable kindness and goodwill.

The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'

We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

We all live in this little bubble that we just expect to live forever and I think those of us that have been with people battling cancer, you realise, actually, this surrounds us everywhere we go.

For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us to overcome the challenges we face.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

When I make a film about a physically challenged person, I come away with so much. I learn to value what I have. My survival instinct sharpened after 'Black' and 'Guzaarish.'

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.

In fact, if you think hard about it, animal conservation should actually be anathema to the Darwin-loving liberal agenda, which holds up evolution - and not altruistic compassion - as the final word on the survival of a species.

I believe that nothing so arbitrary as money should be able to come between a person and the means of survival. And that's a really fancy way of saying that it doesn't matter if you're poor - you should have top-quality health care.

It's killing for fun or profit I can't stand. There's a difference between an Eskimo killing a seal for survival and some dumb broad strolling down Fifth Avenue in a leopard coat.

Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.

Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that.

My stories are about humanity, about the challenges of surviving and the constant fight against ignorance, inhumanity and complacency.

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

Every day should be #GivingTuesday when it comes to surviving natural catastrophes and man-made disasters.

I have survivor's remorse.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.