Quotes About Compassion

I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.

I'm always thinking about the bigger picture and always feeling so much for everybody else, and kind of experiencing the pain of the world, personally.

Just because you don't know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn't mean that it's not happening. Everybody doesn't necessarily share everything. Just know that what you're going through, other people are going through it, too.

Just being with a group of girls and experiencing sadness together - it's a pretty powerful thing.

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

I always want people to experience the feelings I am experiencing. Anything I can do to get you to feel, that's an honor and a duty that I take very seriously.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.

I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

Say no to circuses that exploit and abuse animals.

If we created a society based on love, it would be a society without exploitation.

What I'm not about is exploiting women.

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

Vegetarianism is the best way of expressing love for animals.

As human beings, what we can do is extend help in whatever way possible.

I have a lot of respect for those in medicine that are trying to extend our lives or help us when we're sick.

Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.

If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

Because of my mom's compassion, direction, and knowledge, she gives me that extra push to be the best person I can be.

I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.