Quotes About Compassion

I think it's really easy for women that haven't put on weight to make comments about other women's pregnancies.

I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

My family made big sacrifices but little gestures mean a lot. My sister took me to training when she was pregnant.

When I was in high school, if one of my friends got pregnant, I'd be the first person they'd come to. I never was judgmental.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

Being a parent to my daughters, son to my parents, and friends to many people, I would wish for a society that's fair to everyone, that's free of prejudice and as non-divisive as possible.

It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.

For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.

If we can tell a good story with characters audiences can care about, I'd like to think that prejudices can fall aside and people can just experience the story and these characters for the human beings that they are.

I'm glad if people can listen to some music and maybe fix some prejudices of their own, just by thinking.

In the past, I've tried to show the human side of people involved in stigmatised or misunderstood lifestyles. I've tried to resist easy judgments and not pander to prejudices.

There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this.

You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.

I'm definitely interested in two questions: 'Is anybody ever really irredeemable?' and 'How much are we all prepared to do for each other?'

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything.

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.

He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

I have no love for those who consider themselves 'good people' but stand idly by as the world crumbles around them. It's not enough to personally not do damage. If you're present as someone else destroys what's around you and you do nothing, you helped them.

A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.