Quotes About Compassion

The days I see a Make-A-Wish kid are the best days of the week. It's a real privilege. I give them exactly what they give me - hope.

When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.

The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.

I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.

I think that as president of Poland, I can speak about the suffering.

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

Whether it's police officers, firefighters, first responders, or 911 dispatchers, many dedicated Americans work long hours, and often in difficult conditions, to make sure that when someone's in need, they can help.

I talk to teachers, nurses, police officers, and families nearly every day in North Carolina. Their desire to make a difference inspires me.

I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.

You can't have a democracy when people don't learn to put themselves in the shoes of another person, who can't think what their policies mean for others.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

We need to have something that is reworked, that deals with immigration, that is not thinking in terms of policing.

Our immigration policy should be based in compassion and a desire to help the other.

What I want is the general betterment of pets. No-kill is a part of that. I'd like to see that policy enacted at all SPCA-type organizations around the country.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America's back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.