Quotes About Compassion

Those who deny their own feelings tend to deny other people's.

I will not deny health care to any single American.

Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing.

When you're blessed, you've got to be sensitive to people that don't have and need to depend on somebody else to eat.

I did not want to depict Al Gashey as evil. I wanted him to come across as someone who did what he did for reasons that were compelling. Whether or not we agree with him is a different matter.

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.

If you live with someone that is depressed, the truth of it - it's not that dramatic, it's just a bit, kind of, 'Here we go, this is what we're doing today. This is sad. But we're gonna get through it.'

As far as making people feel less depressed, that, in and of itself, is a political act.

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

What made me empathic was my depressions.

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.

I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn't take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody's against you, you're up against the world and that's not true.

The depression happened more so because when I was a little kid, I wanted to be a doctor. My heart was like, I want to save the world, I want to help people... But when I felt like nothing I was doing was right, that's the way I felt.

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should be deprived of his ambitions.

Every child must have a childhood they deserve. But unfortunately, millions of children are deprived childhood and their dreams crushed under the burden of poverty.

Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.'

I would never talk bad about anybody, even if they have something derogatory to say about me. I'm the bigger person.

Only you can give yourself the love you need and deserve.

Animals don't deserve to be abused. They deserve to be friends with us and they deserve to be appreciated for the beautiful beings they are.

Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here.

My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.

I deserve a mom.

Conflicts are multiplying - people are suffering. But we don't give up, because we know every man, woman, and child deserves a life of peace.