Quotes About Compassion

I was taught that pain is bad.

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able to save people, witnessing their pain.

I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And out of that, I get to laugh.

As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.'

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.

The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.

That pains me in my heart to think that someone who is gay would think that I don't love them and care about them.

Honestly, the pains of humanity have been draining me.

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.

My mom is always asking why can't I make something nice? Because I'll make paintings, say, and they're just really bloody and angsty. So I wrote 'Dark Parts' because I wanted to write something nice for her.

Many people are involved in charities but in our world, there are people who just really care about fashion. If they can get a cool pair of jeans and the money happens to go somewhere incredible, that's a great combination.

Some people don't have hands, some don't have eyes - these people's struggle in life is real. We have been blessed with everything - a pair of eyes, ears, hands. What do we have to worry about? About having one more foot added to our height? Just because I am not six feet, won't I be respected?

If I'm not blessed with children of my own then I'd like to adopt one day - possibly a child from Pakistan.

I'm human. As human as any Indian. And every Pakistani is as human as every Indian.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.