Quotes About Compassion

I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.

I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

I cannot change the fact that divorce is wrong. It's never right. But we are all human, we are all part of a fallen world.

As my father went through a really, really long and dark period of his health declining and falling deeper into the abyss, I knew I was never going to let my family and my children experience this without any long-term care.

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

The false separation between living and giving must end.

I do not want fame.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.

I don't think teams play this game to hurt other guys. I don't think that's the story. We don't play this game to hurt one another.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.

We're all entitled to make mistakes. I'm not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I'm gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

You get sentimental on the road. I'd see a horse with its foal and a tear would come to my eye.

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

You cry the first tear because something is genuinely, singularly upsetting. And you cry the second tear because everybody is crying that first tear with you, and you know that.

I learned long ago not to tear into anyone for a mistake.

We don't need more divisive language or programs and policies that are going to tear the fabric of the nation apart.