Quotes About Compassion

Having experienced her own disappearance, she is conscious of how important it is for people to be seen, so when she looks at them --even the blind one--she also looks for them, just in case they too have got lost and need finding.

How would you behave if you knew you were a God or Goddess? How would you treat yourself, how would you treat others? What kind of consciousness would you hold about your smallest actions if you knew their effects influenced the rest of creation? If your awakenings could bring joy to the multitudes? What kind of mindfulness would that inspire?

Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear.

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.

What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp.

You are such a good friend that if we were on a sinking ship together and there was only one life jacket. . . I'd miss you heaps and think of you often.

I see myself as a professional feeler.

With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.

One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?

I don't know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when there are people who are in need.

We have to pay attention to developing well, in the correct manner, the human aspects also in the professions, in respect of other persons, in being concerned for others, which is the best way of being concerned for ourselves.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

I'm able to take myself out of the celebrity bubble and the profile that I'm at, and look at what black people are going through around the country.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

I've seen hate at its worse. What would it profit me to hate?

We do not always need to think in terms of business or profit.

I don't think any human being who has a heart and soul would support efforts to profit off of people's agony and pain if they're trying to depart a country and fearing for their lives.

I don't think it's fair to a family to uproot them simply because it's profitable for you to do so.

Single-payer is about making our society a better place. It's about putting people over profits.

One bully changing their behavior for the better can have a profound effect on many, many lives.

As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don't recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It's important for many reasons, one of which is that it has a profound impact on health.

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.