Quotes About Compassion

We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture - but above all else, we're concerned with the relief of human suffering.

We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

Suffering does not discriminate.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. 'Forgive me Lord.' For what, I didn't know.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

When we forgive someone, it doesn't excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it's in our own self-interest.

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

We all need to realize that there are people out there who may be suffering and we all need to try to do our part to relieve that suffering when we can.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

Mindfulness helps you to be where you are when you're there. When I'm interacting with constituents who are suffering, that matters.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.