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Everyone deserves compassion. - Michael Sheen

Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it. - Olivia Wilde

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome. - Gary Zukav

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion. - Óscar Arias

I find myself in a position where I have a voice that has the potential to influence - I want to use that to inspire confidence in those that have yet to find it, to inspire compassion in those who don't understand, but most importantly, to inspire love in everyone through the experiences and stories that we can all relate to or empathize with. - Calum Scott

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom. - David Hanson

God wants us to show compassion and understanding toward the unemployed or the poor not because they are poor, but because poor people, with help from those who are already successful, can become rich. And when the poor become rich, all will benefit, because in our modern economy new unemployment is the first sign of economic growth. - Paul Zane Pilzer

In the movie 'Star Trek 3: The Return of Spock,' I'm a really bad Klingon, and I really enjoyed playing that - somebody who's totally unscrupulous. It's like he was not genetically equipped to feel compassion or sensitivity. Just outright evil without apology. - Christopher Lloyd

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. - Robert Kiyosaki

My parents were a little more on the hippie spectrum of Christianity - they weren't liberal Christians by any means, they were pretty conservative - but they preached mostly about love and caring for people, so I grew up with a lot of compassion and empathy. - Weyes Blood

My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion. - Ann Cleeves

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. - Leonard Cohen

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care. - Todd Akin

I just realized that if it's really compassion that drives you, maybe it's not enough just to stop eating animals but you maybe should boycott the whole animal industry, because... it's not what you as a compassionate being would want. So actually you should go one step further and become vegan. - Patrik Baboumian

People who fundamentally disagree with you politically or socially are not bad people. I can't expect that other side to have compassion for me if I can't put myself in their shoes, too. - Jonathan Van Ness

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall. - Saint Patrick

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group. - Henry Bonilla

I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion. - Hansjorg Wyss

My family has been rooted and intertwined with Jerusalem for generations, and I am among those who say every day, 'May You return to Your city, Jerusalem, with compassion.' - Isaac Herzog

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion. - Elizabeth Berkley

Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues. - Anthony Carmona

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed. - Julian Baggini

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion. - Krista Tippett

I just believe as a Christian, we are to show love; we are to show compassion to people, not to point the finger, not to do this, but to do this - to love them, to welcome them, to embrace them. - Franklin Graham

My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion. - Patrik Baboumian

I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that. - Tom Cruise

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general. - Biz Stone

From George Martin's classically inspired production of the Beatles to Peter Gabriel's early solo masterpieces, to Stereolab's beautiful loops and blips, U.K.-based bands have often found a way to squeeze warmth and compassion from the stone-cold - especially now that the tubes are gone - machinery of the recording studio. - David Means

My captors were definitely aware that what they were doing was wrong. It came out in small ways - occasionally through a show of guilt or compassion. One of the boys bought me a gift. Another used to sneak me acetaminophen tablets. - Amanda Lindhout

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. - Theodore Sturgeon

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering. - Aleksander Kwasniewski

I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst. - Frank Wolf

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

Being a typical teenager isn't easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well as compassion towards these young people. - Holly Robinson Peete

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. - Hubert H. Humphrey

Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful. - Bai Ling

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason. - Betty Williams

John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves. - Mary Doria Russell

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion. - Charles Colson

My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game. - Tom Watson

One of women's greatest values is compassion. - Safak Pavey

Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together. - Betty Wright

People who have suffered know more about compassion. - Betty Buckley

But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwashed and such a disconnect with what's actually happening. They don't realize what if it was their kids that were being put into the games? They just don't have the mindset to have that kind of compassion for people. - Josh Hutcherson

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering? - Joan Halifax

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity. - Joan Halifax

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others. - Joan Halifax

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us. - Joan Halifax

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. - Karen Armstrong

I have deep compassion and support for Bruce Jenner. - Alice Eve

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. - Talib Kweli

We have to bring the humanity and compassion back. - Shelley Morrison

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

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love. - Colm Wilkinson

For too many of our citizens, Christianity has become entwined with the ecstatic worship of the gun and violence. For the adherents, there is no compassion, no love thy neighbor, no peace, no reason, and God only helps those who arm themselves. - Paul G. Tremblay

I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a wonderful cocktail. - Susanne Bier

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology. - Ron Reagan

I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently. - Kelly McCreary

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. - Jim Ramstad

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

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that a person's sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent. - Ronnie Musgrove

Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great. - Kevin Brady

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

I am interviewing people with a spirit of genuine interest and compassion, and therefore, the general tone of the site is one of genuine interest and compassion. The moment that culture changes, 'Humans of New York' is no longer viable. - Brandon Stanton

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear. - Joan Halifax

When you relate to a disease, you're afraid. When you relate to a person, there is compassion. You see someone that is like you, that could be like you. You can see yourself in that same situation. - Uzodinma Iweala

I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels. - Holly Holm

As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness. - Ram Dass

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused. - Rory Freedman

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country. - Charles Bass

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. - Karen Armstrong

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. - Karen Armstrong

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them. - Dylan McDermott

The representatives of young professionals and woman entrepreneurs deserve seats at the big table to evolve viable, efficient, and sustainable solutions for problems the world is faced with. Without their participation, there will always be a deficit of compassion and innovation. - Arancha Gonzalez

The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and compassion, looking at the other point of views. - Emma Walton Hamilton

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up. - Shania Twain

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings. - Lobsang Tenzin

I took so many different things away from my maternity leave. It taught me to have more compassion for other people and to see every individual as someone's child. - Ainsley Earhardt

If the message of Jesus was love, hope and compassion, and I can bring that to more people by being a more appealing Jesus, I am happy with that. - Diogo Morgado

I think not only Canada but the world as a whole is called upon to really choose leaders who can generate unity and compassion throughout the world. This is how you find peace, right? - Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion. - Paul Watson

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion. - Georg Brandes

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time. - Andrew Sarris

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well. - Joan Halifax

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion. - Adam Rapp

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion. - Suzan-Lori Parks

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles. - Rob Delaney

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? - Karen Armstrong

I don't know what it's like to be mocked because of your skin color. I don't know what it's like to feel overweight. All I can do as a woman is have compassion, treat other women with kindness, and allow them to just be happy and not judge them for it. - Iliza Shlesinger

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion. - Ger Duany

Basketball is like life and life is like basketball. It's just a game. So lets play the best we can while we are still here with love, compassion, selflessness fairplay and supporting each other to be bigger and better human beings. - Vlade Divac

My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes. - LZ Granderson

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion. - Amy Chua

We have to be a nation of compassion and some sort of humanity when it comes to the treatment of other human beings. - Rashida Tlaib

When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you're given lectures about how it's really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind. - Michelle Alexander

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice. - Johnnie Cochran

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time. - Bill Williams

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice. - Mike DeWine

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation. - Conrad Burns

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion. - Major Owens

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