Quotes About Compassion

I want to be there for all those who are left behind in this world, whether it's because they are born poor, born a woman, or born in an area affected by devastation.

I don't know why I developed a social consciousness, but I really think I have a consciousness; I feel connected to everything and everybody in the world.

When we stop thinking about ourselves, when we stop being so devoted to 'me,' we can start behaving in a way that actually benefits others!

I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes.

A diabetic always wants to help another diabetic.

My husband Don's mother, Denise, was diagnosed with cancer, and she was given eight months to live. We decided to go and stay there and help live her days with her, 'cause you don't get those chances again, right?

Let's not forget, we are all one diagnosis away from having a pre-existing condition.

I think that's one thing that, you know, we all need to remember is that, you know, politics, even though it's been really rough, is that we are all human beings first. And that it is more important for us to have civil dialogue. And you know what? I'm conservative, but I'm not mad about it.

Every fight should be settled through love and dialogue.

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with his and the world's pain and confusion in the best way he knew how.

Growing older has helped me become empathetic to other people and their reasons for making choices. I used to think there was a definitive right and wrong and that only I knew what they were and so I should be dictator of the world.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

A man is just as dead if he dies of malnutrition as of bullets.

A man who dies, no matter how terrible his crime was, must be brought to burial.

There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

I just want to make people happy and make a difference in people's lives.

After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.

People want to believe that love conquers all and that differences can be worked out, and I do believe that, too.

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

There's so much more to people than their differences.

I want people to understand you just can't wish hard on anybody just because they have different beliefs than you.

I know that I play a mother all the time, but different kinds of mother.

I can respect different opinions, because everybody has a story.