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Quotes About Compassionate

I think you're the sort of person who finds money on the ground and waves it in the air and asks if anyone has lost it. I think you cry in movies that aren't even sad because you have a soft heart, though you don't let it show. I think you do things that scare you, and that makes you braver than those adrenaline junkies who bungee-jump off bridges.
~ Gayle Forman
I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
~ Leo C. Rosten
The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.
~ Marianne Williamson
If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.
~ Henry Rollins
Right after the war, in 1919, she'd been hired by the Red Cross Publicity Bureau. She was assigned to travel through devastated Europe and the Balkans and write newspaper articles that would persuade compassionate Americans to contribute to the rebuilding process—through the Red Cross, of course.
~ Susan Wittig Albert
Operation Sovereign Borders has worked and delivered a human dividend that is compassionate and fair... our plan is simple. We won't change it. Labor will.
~ Scott Morrison
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life.
~ Toni Morrison
We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty, and yawned in the fantasy of our strength. And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved.
~ Toni Morrison
sympathetic.
~ J.D. Robb
I'm a twin, I'm a Cancer; I'm always taking care of other people. I've always been the fixer in the family, the responsible one.
~ Gisele Bundchen
I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the 'compassionate mother' or whatever.
~ Michael Learned
Fear teaches you to be cautious, careful, and conscientious. It also forces you to be creative, compassionate, and calculating.
~ T.D. Jakes
Faye had always been sweet, flaky but sweet, unlikely to ask about your problems but deeply concerned about them if you reminded her they existed.
~ Tana French
I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.
~ Jim Wallis
I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.
~ Charlie Crist
Craig Varjabedian's photography captures, with arresting clarity, the ineffable whispers of time and spirit layered deep in New Mexico's cultural landscape. Through the artful combination of his compassionate eye and technical virtuosity, he evokes the past in the present and the holy in the everyday.
~ Catherine Whitney
If any animal is capable of unconditional love, it is surely the canine: they are forgiving, caring, life-affirming creatures who humble us and teach us to be more human and compassionate.
~ Richard Belzer
I believe that Donald Trump is someone who is not fully understood for how compassionate and what a great boss he is to women.
~ Kellyanne Conway
I have not seen a community more giving than St. Louis.
~ David Steward
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.
~ Albert Bandura
When congregations hold passive views of human responsibility, the evidence is that they are not growing. If some teaching claims to be the Gospel but does nothing in response, does not elicit any compassionate action, then it is surely not the Gospel. The fantasy of a gospel that does nothing is not the good news of the New Testament.
~ Thomas C. Oden
I'm just a nerd at heart, and I'm actually quite nice.
~ Madelaine Petsch
What's she like, the Peeping Tammy?" "She doesn't think about it that way, and you get it when she talks. She likes people.
~ Nora Roberts
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~ Colin Meloy