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Quotes About Compassionate

Integrity Intention Doing Better Moral Distress The Moral Demands of Compassionate Health Care Authenticity What Is Our Work?
~ Sharon Salzberg
Meditation has become an ingrained part of my everyday life that helps me feel so much more centered, patient and compassionate. It even gives me great physical energy.
~ Tim McCarthy
If youre a sugar addict like most people, you need to read Beyond Sugar Shock. This compassionate, comforting, uplifting book will change your life.
~ Kathy Smith
Trust life, trust that it will always guide you to the right thing, and be kind, be compassionate.
~ Frederick Lenz
A crazy parent, America was. Good and openhearted one way, dismissive and cruel in others.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Philadelphians are a gritty, tough people who will help you when you're down.
~ Michael Nutter
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
~ Gary Keller
We are a nation of shareholders, he had said more than once to Seema, trying to articulate his brand of no-nonsense but compassionate capitalism.... Several times during his Greyhound trip, Barry had paused to consider that, although he loved his fellow passengers deeply, he could not trust them at the voting booth because they were not shareholders. They did not understand the thrill and the pain and the obligation of owning a part of their country.
~ Gary Shteyngart
I think - everything just in the political realm - women are usually perceived to be more trustworthy and compassionate. And they usually fare well against their male counterpart.
~ Aja Brown
My hope is that we can spread the word: Wonder Woman is not some unapproachable goddess. She's funny, dangerous, intimidating, brilliant, and compassionate. In many ways, I think she's the most human superheroine there is.
~ Gail Simone
Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
~ Saki
Our intention is that of a shepherd, but our actions are those of a loving, wise, compassionate leader. If we all act according to this code, we will create an enlightened society.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Officious, innocent, sincere,Of every friendless name the friend.
~ Samuel Johnson
It seems to me that we are always falling off the horse on one side or the other in this matter of being tough and tender, durable and delightful, courageous and compassionate—wimping out on truth when we ought to be lionhearted, or wrangling when we ought to be weeping.
~ John Piper
I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead.
~ Elton John
Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
~ Elton John
straight-talking, hard-working, kind but clearly built with an unbreakable core of steel.
~ Elton John
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
~ Bayard Taylor
I do look after everyone around me; that's just who I am. I am a real mother hen.
~ Penny Lancaster
Them Frenchies!' 'Unchristian, that's what I call 'em,' responded Mr. Stubbs severely. 'I fair compassionate that wench.
~ Georgette Heyer
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
~ Adrienne Rich
Tina Fey is the most caring woman I've worked with in this business.
~ Dean Winters
For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people.
~ Francis Maude
I do and I will yet praise you, my Savior and my God. My hope is in you, Father—for me and for all of my brokenhearted friends. I pray in Jesus' compassionate and victorious name. Amen.
~ Scotty Smith