Quotes About Compassion

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Nothing would mean anything if I didn't live a life of use to others.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.

Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

Jesus set an example for us to follow: a life of loving, obedient service.

There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

… The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.

I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

To touch is to give life.

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.

The solution to all the problems of daily life is to cherish others.