Quotes about Compassion

To those who are given much, much is expected.

The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.

Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.