Quotes about Compassion
wisdom involves using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and to think of the well-being of the whole.
— Jane Goodall
Unfortunately, the media devotes so much space to covering all of the bad, hateful things that are going on and not enough to reporting about all the goodness and kindness that's out there.
— Jane Goodall
Archbishop Tutu once explained to me that suffering can either embitter us or ennoble us, and it tends to ennoble us if we are able to make meaning out of our suffering and use it for the benefit of others.
— Jane Goodall
A great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet.
— Jane Goodall
Moral evolution, I think, is understanding how we should behave, how we should treat others, understanding justice, understanding the need for a more equitable society.
— Jane Goodall
Using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and to think of the well-being of the whole.
— Jane Goodall
I think humanity at least has a shared understanding of what justice means.
— Jane Goodall
The program—which is all about taking care of people so they are better able to care for
— Jane Goodall
How else can we become reconciled, except one individual at a time? This Jesus you seek did not come to address nations. He washed the wounds of lepers. He dined with sinners. He healed all who came to him. One person at a time.
— Janette Oke
It can make us stronger, more compassionate, more understanding—more like Jesus—if we allow it to. And the more clutter we get rid of in our life here—the more we will be able to enjoy heaven—when we get there. So, pain can have a purpose.
— Janette Oke
You of all have the most to forgive." "Ah, and if so," he responded, "I have the most blessing to receive after I've done so."
— Janette Oke
You didn't have to be a ma and a pa and four kids to be a family. All you needed was people livin' together and lovin' and helpin' one another. That's what made a family—blood-ties and love-bonds.
— Janette Oke