Quotes About Compassion

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

I think if you make others happy you are contented.

It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself.

I want spend some time continuing to be a force for good.

I have decided to contribute Rs 1 crore to Kerala. I am feeling very disheartened to see people suffering there.

There's a lot of people that are in need. We're going little by little... I'm only one person, but we are contributing.

I don't like controversies. I try to understand where a person comes from and where he is.

You don't want to endorse hate; you don't want to endorse racism. You don't want to support controversy.

Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?

I never set out to convert anyone in the Klan. I just set out to get an answer to my question: 'How can you hate me when you don't even know me.'

It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.

When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.

Every cop isn't a bad cop just like every NFL player that makes a mistake, we're not all bad guys.

Not every cop is bad, not every white person is bad or racist.

My mom's coping mechanism was to be strong and resilient. She is very compassionate and nonjudgmental.

I feel for the cops; I feel for us as a society as a whole, period.

Growing up where I'm from, some people are afraid of cops. They don't really like cops. And what a lot of people don't realize is, they're really not the bad guys. They're really on our side, they're really trying to help us out. And sometimes, we don't understand that.

My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

We all make mistakes, and sometimes the difference that we forget is that the people we read about in the paper and on the Internet and see on TV, behind that is, at its core, a mistake.

Knowing that there is a community of people on every corner of this planet that believes in justice, that is willing to sacrifice, and that is willing to take a stand is the most heartening thing.

In many corners the concept of DACA is a fair and compassionate one, giving reprieve to children brought into the country illegally by their parents. But the way the program is lawfully mandated and implemented matters.

I was raised to believe that you need to leave the world a better place than how you found it, as corny as that sounds.

Be always lavish of your caresses, and sparing in your corrections.