I’m no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion. – Elizabeth Berkley
When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion. – Nhat Hanh
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. – Ellen DeGeneres
We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it’s against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don’t talk about them, or we don’t talk about them as much. – Diane Ackerman
I don’t know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion. – Eric Whitacre
I own two beautiful homes, and I’m always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out. – MaryJanice Davidson
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case. – John Rawls
I think one of the best words in the English language is ‘compassion.’ I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care… and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference. – Michael Crawford
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people. – Morarji Desai
The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. The LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made. – The Bible Psalm 145:8-9
There’s nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion. – Jim McDermott
People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion – perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances. – Kavita Ramdas
Compassion doesn’t, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way. – Karen Armstrong
Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we’d sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster. – Martha Beck
What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion. – Krista Tippett
The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion. – Julian Bond
I’ve always had a compassion for characters in novels – the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don’t know and can’t finally alter. – John Crowley
If there was any creature in American culture more derided than the young girl… I know people will argue with me about that, but everything girls are into gets ridiculed. I have a lot of compassion in my heart for girls in their teens and twenties who are going through this particular passage, because I get it. It makes sense! – Kelly Sue DeConnick
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. – Joseph Butler
I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don’t have a problem accepting that. – Kimberly Elise
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. – Milan Kundera
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with. – Marianne Williamson
Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism. – Karen Bender
A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings. – Lobsang Tenzin
Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. – Kevin Rudd
The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties. – Joseph Bruchac