Compassion Quotes

1. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

2. “Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”

3. “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”

4. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

5. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

6. “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”

7. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

8. “Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.”

9. “Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”

10. “Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”

11. “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.”

12. “'For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?' - bell hooks”

13. “As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.”

14. “Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”

15. “Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.”

16. “If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”

17. “Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.”

18. “When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.”

19. “The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”

20. “Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.”

21. “God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.”

22. “In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.”

23. “We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.”

24. “Developing a resiliency, a grit, a level of poise, a composure, a level of perspective, confidence, courage, compassion. These are all things you can work on daily.”

25. “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.”

26. “The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.”

27. “Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.”

28. “The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.”

29. “My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.”

30. “As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.”

31. “Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.”

32. “Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.”

33. “Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.”

34. “I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, but I don't waste time with people.”

35. “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.”

36. “It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.”

37. “There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.”

38. “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.”

39. “It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.”

40. “It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”

41. “God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.”

42. “True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.”

43. “Make no judgements where you have no compassion.”

44. “Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.”

45. “Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.”

46. “Compassion is the basis of morality.”

47. “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.”

48. “A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”

49. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

50. “Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.”

51. “Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.”

52. “Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.”

53. “Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”

54. “Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”

55. “Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.”

56. “Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.”

57. “Literature is always about bygone times. It's always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity.”

58. “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.”

59. “A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God - more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.”

60. “If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.”

61. “Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.”

62. “Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.”

63. “Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.”

64. “You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.”

65. “In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It's when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it's almost incomprehensible.”

66. “Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”

67. “We have to be a nation of compassion and some sort of humanity when it comes to the treatment of other human beings.”

68. “God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.”

69. “Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.”

70. “The dew of compassion is a tear.”

71. “Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.”

72. “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.”

73. “You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.”

74. “Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.”

75. “America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.”

76. “Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.”

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

78. “When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I've got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.”

79. “Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.”

80. “I'm hopeful for a world with more love, acceptance, and compassion for others.”

81. “Just as 'Islam' literally means 'peace,' none of the 99 names of Allah mean violence. Similarly, every religion in the world stands for peace, compassion, and brotherhood.”

82. “My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.”

83. “Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.”

84. “Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.”

85. “The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.”

86. “I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.”

87. “Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.”

88. “Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.”

89. “I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.”

90. “There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.”

91. “Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.”

92. “Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.”

93. “I should like to think that we'll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of compassion for each other, where we say, 'Enough! Let us live as one!'”

94. “Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.”

95. “Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.'”

96. “Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.”

97. “Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.”

98. “It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.”

99. “Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.”

100. “Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.”

101. “Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.”

102. “Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.”

103. “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.”

104. “Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.”

105. “I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.”

106. “If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.”

107. “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.”

108. “Prejudice is sinful. All blood flows red. And the most harmful and foolish kind of prejudice is prejudice against yourself. Every woman is your sister, and every woman needs her sisters. So try to give other women the courtesy of your compassion, respect, and forgiveness. Love yourself despite - and because of - your flaws.”

109. “One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.”

110. “No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.”

111. “If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.”

112. “I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.”

113. “The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.”

114. “Compassion, loyalty, and respect sum up love for me - it's a mix that's very rare to find and even harder to imbibe.”

115. “Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.”

116. “All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.”

117. “Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.”

118. “Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.”

119. “Compassion is a two way street.”

120. “For my family, belief in God and in the resurrection of Jesus Christ brings such hope and promise to our lives. It strengthens our family and our marriage as we focus on Christ as our example of pure love, compassion and tolerance towards others. This positive message is one that helps us become better people each day.”

121. “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.”

122. “Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.”

123. “Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.”

124. “'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.”

125. “The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.”

126. “These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.”

127. “The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.”

128. “AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.”

129. “In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.”

130. “One of women's greatest values is compassion.”

131. “My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.”

132. “My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.”

133. “'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.' - √ìscar Arias”

134. “Thailand was built on compassion.”

135. “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.”

136. “And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.”

137. “We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.”

138. “Compassion is no substitute for justice.”

139. “When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.”

140. “It is critical for us to cultivate consciousness and compassion towards our environment, create awareness, galvanize people, and build sustainable innovations for sustainable development.”

141. “I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.”

142. “It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.”

143. “In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.”

144. “The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.”

145. “I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions - love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.”

146. “It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.”

147. “My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.”

148. “Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.”

149. “Pierre was an extraordinary teacher - he really was one of the best, and he raised the boys so, so well: to have a global view, to have compassion, to be humanitarians, to really be concerned about alleviating suffering.”

150. “Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.”

151. “When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.”

152. “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.”

153. “If you take me out of it, I find 'six degrees' to be a beautiful concept that we should try to live by. It's about compassion and responsibility for everyone on the planet.”

154. “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.”

155. “Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”

156. “Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.”

157. “For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.”

158. “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.”

159. “We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion.”

160. “Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.”

161. “I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.”

162. “In whatever guise - our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death - the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love, and mercy is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom.”

163. “Donald Trump is out to destroy people's lives, and he's trying to take our democracy down. That is something we can fight with everything we've got, but having compassion for one another while we do it is going to get us a lot further.”

164. “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.”

165. “Wonder Woman, she's amazing. I love everything that she represents and everything that she stands for. She's all about love and compassion and truth and justice and equality, and she's a whole lot of woman.”

166. “May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.”

167. “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?”

168. “All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”

169. “Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.”

170. “If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.”

171. “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.”

172. “We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.”

173. “I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.”

174. “What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?”

175. “New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.”

176. “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.”

177. “I have huge admiration for Jesus Christ and for his incredible compassion for all people.”

178. “No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.”

179. “Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.”

180. “It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.”

181. “We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.”

182. “We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.”

183. “What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.”

184. “The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.”

185. “Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect.”

186. “The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.”

187. “Divorce is challenging. When your kids go through things, it's tough. But it's no different for any other woman. And I have great compassion for single moms. It's lousy out there for them. I had the ability to work. I have always been the provider anyway, but there are a lot of women who can't support themselves.”

188. “I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.”

189. “Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?”

190. “When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.”

191. “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.”

192. “We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.”

193. “Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.”

194. “The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.”

195. “We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”

196. “I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.”

197. “I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.”

198. “We forget some of the oldest medicines we have are love and compassion, and they can be deployed by everyone.”

199. “I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.”

200. “With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.”

201. “My own feeling is we need more compassion, we need more empathy, we need more togetherness, in terms of working together.”

202. “Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.”

203. “I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes.”

204. “I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.”

205. “Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.”

206. “The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.”

207. “I've always felt very blessed and lucky in the world, and I have great compassion for people who struggle to get through the day.”

208. “Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.”

209. “There is no shaming in my house, we don't parent like that. We don't shame or punish, they're communicated with with as much compassion and lack of frustration as we can muster.”

210. “The church must always show compassion, always.”

211. “I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.”

212. “In Minneapolis, we believe in connection, not alienation. We believe in compassion, not indifference. We believe in love, but we are not timid.”

213. “What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.”

214. “Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.”

215. “We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.”

216. “I do not think I am successful just because I have money. I'm successful because I love who I am and I have no regrets, and I'm successful because I have a great heart and I have compassion and I care and I would be happy with or without money.”

217. “Since the days of Harry Truman, Democrats have wanted universal health coverage, believing that if other industrialized countries can achieve it, surely the United States can. For Democrats, universal coverage speaks to America's sense of decency and compassion. Democrats also believe that it will lead to a healthier and more productive country.”

218. “If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.”

219. “Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.”

220. “Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.”

221. “Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.”

222. “For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.”

223. “The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.”

224. “Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.”

225. “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.”

226. “Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.”

227. “Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.”

228. “Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.”

229. “Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.”

230. “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.”

231. “Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.”

232. “Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.”

233. “Compassion is not a popular virtue.”

234. “But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.”

235. “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.”

236. “I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'”

237. “We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.”

238. “We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.”

239. “I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.”

240. “Compassion is contempt with a human face.”

241. “Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.”

242. “When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.”

243. “More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.”

244. “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.”

245. “You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.”

246. “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.”

247. “I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.”

248. “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.”

249. “Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.”

250. “Why does God endow us with compassion?”

251. “My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.”

252. “I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.”

253. “When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything.”

254. “I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.”

255. “In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.”

256. “I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.”

257. “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.”

258. “Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.”

259. “However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.”

260. “Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.”

261. “The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.”

262. “Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.”

263. “Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.”

264. “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.”

265. “Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.”

266. “Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.”

267. “She has no imagination and that means no compassion.”

268. “The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.”

269. “We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.”

270. “At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.”

271. “The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.”

272. “Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.”

273. “I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.”

274. “Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.”

275. “What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.”

276. “You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.”

277. “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.”

278. “I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.”

279. “It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.”

280. “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.”

281. “I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.”

282. “I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.”

283. “I would say I have compassion.”

284. “Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.”

285. “I can tell you and promise you that I've had struggles in my life. And I would love to have people understand that Mitt and I have compassion for people that are struggling.”

286. “Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.”

287. “I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.”

288. “Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.”

289. “Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.”

290. “Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?”

291. “Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.”

292. “Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.”

293. “I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.”

294. “If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”

295. “I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose… When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.”

296. “I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.”

297. “I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.”

298. “I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.”

299. “I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.”

300. “I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.”

301. “I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.”

302. “In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'”

303. “I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.”

304. “The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.”

305. “Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.”

306. “I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.”

307. “Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.”

308. “I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.”

309. “I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.”

310. “Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.”

311. “You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.”

312. “Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.”

313. “I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.”

314. “There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.”

315. “We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.”

316. “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?”

317. “Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.”

318. “What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.”

319. “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.”

320. “I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.”

321. “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.”

322. “People need to have compassion for others.”

323. “All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.”

324. “Everyone deserves compassion.”

325. “It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.”

326. “One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.”

327. “When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.”

328. “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.”

329. “All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.”

330. “Tax policy is not about compassion.”

331. “Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.”

332. “There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.”

333. “My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.”

334. “I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.”

335. “Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.”

336. “We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.”

337. “If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.”

338. “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.”

339. “I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.”

340. “Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.”

341. “Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.”

342. “I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.”

343. “It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.”

344. “We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.”

345. “Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.”

346. “I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.”

347. “As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.”

348. “Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.”

349. “We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.”

350. “Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.”

351. “Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.”

352. “When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.”

353. “Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.”

354. “From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.”

355. “Strong families serve society by bringing forth healthy children and maturing young adults, by being a rich source of a compassion for sick members, of support for others in time of crisis and of care for the elderly and the dying.”

356. “There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney. They seemed to have no compassion, and they were always alone.”

357. “Even if you were aware of children and felt compassion, when you have your own, it multiplies. It breaks your heart to know that there are so many children in the world suffering so much.”

358. “Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.”

359. “The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.”

360. “Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes.”

361. “'Hell in a Handbasket' is not dealing with the political nature of the country. It's dealing with the humanity and the compassion of the world.”

362. “When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.”

363. “For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.”

364. “If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That's why legislation and regulations are necessary.”

365. “As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.”

366. “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.”

367. “If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world.”

368. “Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.”

369. “Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspect a rock or measure the circumference of a tree trunk. Emotions are not to interfere with the assessment. The animal-rights movement capitalizes on this perception, depicting scientists as devoid of compassion.”

370. “The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.”

371. “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.”

372. “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.”

373. “For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.”

374. “The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.”

375. “Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.”

376. “People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.”

377. “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.”

378. “Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.”

379. “Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.”

380. “What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.”

381. “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.”

382. “Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace - values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It's the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.”

383. “Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.”

384. “Seriously, women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much. Learning how to do that more has been a valuable add.”

385. “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.”

386. “I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'”

387. “To me, one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer. That face symbolizes this country: young, curious, brimming with idealism and hope - and a real, honest compassion.”

388. “Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.”

389. “As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular compassion on those who hurt emotionally and physically. But we do not resemble the Suffering Servant when we take pains to show off our suffering.”

390. “The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need.”

391. “We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.”

392. “The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.”

393. “This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.”

394. “All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.”

395. “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.”

396. “I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.”

397. “The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always.”

398. “We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.”

399. “Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.”

400. “Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.”

401. “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.”

402. “When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.”

403. “Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.”

404. “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.”

405. “All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.”

406. “One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and compassion, is 'Mannahatta.'”

407. “There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.”

408. “My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.”

409. “For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.”

410. “I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.”

411. “Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.”

412. “At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.”

413. “The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.”

414. “Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence.”

415. “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.”

416. “My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.”

417. “Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.”

418. “Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.”

419. “The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights, and that women and children deserve better, and that the demands of justice, generosity, and compassion require that the right to life be guaranteed to everyone.”

420. “All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.”

421. “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.”

422. “The compassion of Christlike friends deeply touches and changes our lives.”

423. “I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.”

424. “I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.”

425. “I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst.”

426. “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.”

427. “Sometimes I, as a public official, turn to Scripture or hymns - especially hymns, because sometimes we Catholics don't have the Scriptures memorized like we should - to help me explain a public policy position or an idea or to be able to articulate it better when you're talking about justice or mercy or compassion.”

428. “Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.”

429. “You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.”

430. “If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.”

431. “I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.”

432. “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.”

433. “I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was simply an extraordinary woman, a woman of great strength, kindness, integrity and compassion. I am not trying to make her sound like a saint, but she had the most profound influence on me. I carry her with me today.”

434. “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.”

435. “Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.”

436. “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.”

437. “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.”

438. “There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is.”

439. “Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.”

440. “My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.”

441. “Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.”

442. “There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.”

443. “When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.”

444. “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.”

445. “Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.”

446. “Compassion knows that choosing the higher road in any situation is the most loving option for you.”

447. “Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.”

448. “But the reason America is a great country, the reason is because our compassion is in our laws. And when we live by those laws and we treat everybody equally under the law, that's when people feel good about being Americans.”

449. “The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.”

450. “If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.”

451. “Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.”

452. “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.”

453. “The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.”

454. “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.”

455. “Living the life I have lived - being raised by deaf parents, assimilating to a different culture, and the challenges I have faced over time - has given me insight to the fact that each person has their own complex, intricate story, and it's rarely what I suspect it is. We must have compassion and grace for each other. We must.”

456. “I don't think there's any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don't think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it's appropriate.”

457. “I work with a group called Compassion & Choices in California. It's attempting to get death with dignity legalised in California, the idea being that so goes California, so goes the rest of the U.S., at least.”

458. “You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.”

459. “I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.”

460. “Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.”

461. “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!”

462. “It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.”

463. “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.”

464. “We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like literary sculptures, at once monumental and yet human. We've applied all of our intelligence, our empathy, our critical faculties, our compassion - and we think, in our delusion, that it's still 1960, and our work is going to get noticed.”

465. “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.”

466. “We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.”

467. “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.”

468. “I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, personal freedom, less government and fewer taxes. But I also believe in compassion, inclusion, and helping those who want to help themselves.”

469. “I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.”

470. “Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.”

471. “The world has proved enough times that it can scale cruelty and violence. Compassion and kindness can and must be scaled to create a world of justice for children.”

472. “You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that's just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.”

473. “Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!”

474. “On January 21st of 2017, the day after I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced. We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone. But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.”

475. “My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.”

476. “As citizens of this great nation, it is kindness, love, and compassion for each other that will bring us together - and keep us together. These are the values Donald and I will bring to the White House.”

477. “That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. So, this November, I'm voting for a woman who is my role model, as a mother, and as an advocate. A woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children.”

478. “Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.”

479. “I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.”

480. “I just always believe that we should not reward people with citizenship whose first act in this country was a violation of the law. And I continue to hold that view. But let me say, I think there is plenty of room here for compassion. And there's plenty of room here for crafting a solution that will deal with this issue in the long term.”

481. “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.'”

482. “As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.”

483. “In Pope Francis, I see a leader who lives every day in the image of Jesus. Under his guidance, the church is focused once again on providing comfort, compassion and salvation for sinners, the poor, and those who seek peace in an increasingly complex world. That's my Catholicism.”

484. “I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.”

485. “The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity, and it's love.”

486. “Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.”

487. “Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.”

488. “When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.”

489. “When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they're feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.”

490. “Wealth and compassion are opposites.”

491. “I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.”

492. “A lot of my friends in my student days complained about how their parents made them play an instrument when they were kids. I always felt compassion for them and didn't believe a parent could be so cruel, but when I check today, those complaining friends grew up to be quite successful, and many of them are now making their children play.”

493. “That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.”

494. “A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.”

495. “We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance of all who are created in the image of God.”

496. “We can prevent many people from becoming terrorists by truly listening to people who feel they've been treated unjustly and responding to their concerns with a sense of justice and compassion.”

497. “I think it's all about people loving each other and having compassion, accepting one another and educating themselves.”

498. “I remember 'vulnerability' being an unattractive word for most of my life, and I resented it as a direction coming from a director just because it implied weakness so I get the job. But it is that humbling place that creates compassion.”

499. “'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.”

500. “In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it.”

501. “Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.”

502. “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.”

503. “With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They're distant; you can idealize them. But there's room to have compassion for people and see them as human beings. Just because they're royalty, it doesn't mean they don't love or feel loss or feel pain.”

504. “Clearly America is exceptional in its immorality, lack of human compassion, and disrespect for law and its founding document.”

505. “Who could think that children from the pockets of Himalaya sing folklore from Scotland and vice versa? Such an education in the initial years develops compassion and mutual respect for each other's skills.”

506. “I still deal with triggers and neuroses that I've developed over the decades. But I do think I have a great amount of compassion for people who feel that they don't fit in, or people who feel they have trouble finding their place in this world.”

507. “I think compassion is the only way to approach any subject, especially if it's to do with physical appearance. I don't think it's really about tearing something apart.”

508. “There's the Draymond Green you see out on the floor. But that's not me. I mean, it is, but there's more. People see the fiery guy, the competitive guy, the trash talk and everything. But they don't see the love and compassion. They don't see the person. They don't see the real me, who values his friends and puts people first.”

509. “You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.”

510. “'Paris, Texas' gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.”

511. “Every day, at home, I have the astonishing and humbling opportunity - together with my wife Sophie - to nurture empathy, compassion, self-love, and a keen sense of justice in our three kids.”

512. “So many things can be filtered through fandom - joy, compassion, love.”

513. “As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.”

514. “The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us.”

515. “God is compassion.”

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

517. “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.”

518. “First Lady Michelle Obama - I admire her confidence, integrity, intelligence, compassion, and her overall vibe - she is such an inspiration.”

519. “With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.”

520. “He is a regular guy who absolutely is not attracted to his own celebrity. He's a jokester, a little rough around the edges, with great heart and compassion; he loves his family. I feel very comfortable with him. I don't see 'Denzel Washington Star'; I just see Denzel.”

521. “Becoming chronically ill has definitely given me a greater understanding of human nature, and I've learned to accept people's lack of long-term compassion for others while they live their busy lives.”

522. “You have to look beyond your known limited experience. Politics should be based on compassion.”

523. “I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.”

524. “Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.”

525. “To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of his or her neighbors into the political arena.”

526. “I experienced no conflict between my mother and father, which was entirely due to my mother's compassion, intelligence, and maturity.”

527. “I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.”

528. “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.”

529. “What makes us different from other species is our capacity for compassion and empathy with the struggles of other people.”

530. “I am a mother now, and I'm a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a feminist. I want him to go into the world with compassion for humanity.”

531. “The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.”

532. “I think the root of minor problems is separation from a belief system of interconnectedness and compassion and oneness, so when we multiply that over and over again, it turns into lies and chaos and terrorism.”

533. “I love my religion, I love everything about it, but at the same time, I love my career, and I want to do it with the same love and compassion.”

534. “Yoga has given me more compassion for my imperfections.”

535. “Compassion and empathy are anathema to sports.”

536. “Lots of human-rights tragedies deserve concerts, but there's something extra with Tibet. It's a spiritual culture, a country rooted in humility and compassion. And among artists, there's a lot of Buddhists, people who want an alternative to basic Christianity, which doesn't offer much.”

537. “Repression is the enemy of civilization - so keep dreaming, because the dreams we dream today will provide the love, the compassion, and the humanity that will narrate the stories of our lives tomorrow.”

538. “I think the really significant part of it for us, for the western world, is we have a lot to gain from the Tibetans - there are certain lessons that are within Tibetan culture. I mean understandings of compassion and of nonviolence that are things that we really lack in our society.”

539. “There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering of others, who are motivated to go to West Africa despite the risks of infection and death. And doctors and nurses face those risks every day regardless of their setting.”

540. “Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected.”

541. “Like many of my friends and associates, I am a life-long Democrat. We have a rock-solid commitment to supporting the political party that we so strongly believe offers the most promising vision of America: one that recognizes the proper role of government, the importance of compassion, and the value of diversity.”

542. “I don't feel like I've ever subscribed to the stereotypical notion of success. I've always equated success with having integrity, conducting yourself with compassion and honesty, and following your heart despite whether or not you ever make any money at it.”

543. “I am urging Americans to be more careful about the kinds of media we support with our consumer spending. We've got to invest less in the media that glorifies violence and more in entertainment that lifts up the values of love, compassion, and the best in human nature.”

544. “With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.”

545. “Come election time, black and white politicians put on their costumes of compassion and care, shake black hands, kiss black babies, sing 'We Shall Overcome' in black , and pray that we will ignore the reality of everyday suffering and the damage that is being done to our future in exchange for our votes.”

546. “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.”

547. “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.”

548. “If you can understand, you can feel compassion.”

549. “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.”

550. “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.”

551. “Henry Hays was cheated all his life. He was cheated by his father who taught him to hate. His community taught him to hate. My mom told me, no matter what one does in life, he or she deserves some compassion, and I knew Hays deserved compassion more than anybody.”

552. “My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them.”

553. “Marriage has given me the gift of compassion.”

554. “You don't have to be a Kerli fan to be a Moon Child, and you don't have to be a Moon Child to be a Kerli fan. You just have to make the best of what you have and have compassion for yourself and for others always.”

555. “I come from a very small place in Eastern Europe, so my whole life has kind of been one big fight to live my dream against all odds. But I think it's hard to be a human in general - we all have our own struggles and things to overcome. That's why it's so important to always have compassion.”

556. “Canadians have much to be proud of and much to teach the world about compassion.”

557. “It's great that mixed martial arts allows people to still be in touch with their animal side and duke it out in a cage, but I think it's important: we're still nurturing beings, and we should still have compassion for each other.”

558. “I have such sister compassion for women in uniform in life, principally, because now I know how incredibly uncomfortable those uniforms are on top of all the other things they're dealing with that are far more important.”

559. “We need a permanent solution to TPS recipients and develop a path to citizenship. And, more fundamentally, we need to ensure that our immigration policies treat those coming to this country with the dignity and compassion that should be afforded to all human beings and immediately stop tearing families apart.”

560. “This idea of bringing awareness to our lives seems like a good idea, right? We'll gain a productive, enjoyable, reflective life and be able to extend compassion, empathy, and joy to others. That seems like a pretty good deal.”

561. “When we interact with others from a place of compassion without expectations, things are set up to go pretty smoothly.”

562. “Interactions - whether personal or business, teacher-student, friend to friend, or family member - all call for balance, respect, and compassion.”

563. “Most creatures in nature die consciously. Cobras, for instance, choose a particular place on a particular branch of the tree. Many a times, I would try to force-feed them out of my misplaced compassion, but they would just puke and go back to sit on the same branch.”

564. “If you have physical ailments, you will get everyone's compassion, but when you have a mental ailment, you will get laughter, unfortunately. This is because it is very difficult to make out when somebody is sick and when somebody is being stupid.”

565. “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.”

566. “Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.”

567. “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.”

568. “Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. Every day, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals but helps the environment.”

569. “I have deep compassion and support for Bruce Jenner.”

570. “As the human race, let's continue to show love, compassion, and respect towards one another.”

571. “People who have suffered know more about compassion.”

572. “In just my own neighborhood, you can't go one block without seeing a sign that says, you know, 'Everyone's welcome here,' 'Refugees are welcome here.' I love my Muslim neighbors, and so there is truly this spirit of generosity and compassion and openness that still exists.”

573. “Our immigration policy should be based in compassion and a desire to help the other.”

574. “I believe the arts are the best way to help people go on a journey of self-discovery toward their own compassion and empathy for humanity and themselves.”

575. “'Laramie' is a way in to replacing any hate in your heart with understanding, compassion, and acceptance.”

576. “I love my ability to generate empathy and compassion within myself and others.”

577. “Whether it's a song or a television show, or a book or poem, art is the thing that cracks me open and encourages me to go on a deeper journey to find my own compassion and empathy and humanity.”

578. “That's the difference between a great comic and a bad comic - one has great instincts and has a lot of compassion and can feel what's right and what's wrong.”

579. “As progressives, we care about the well-being of others. We are soft-hearted and have aloha, respect, compassion for others, and we don't like to see anyone suffering.”

580. “Labour parades compassion for the poor, but it practised casual cruelty by consigning millions to benefits. Yet there's nothing compassionate about being trapped on benefits, being robbed of the dignity of work, and shut out from the choices that brings.”

581. “My mother knows struggle and has taught me how to lead with compassion, the compassion that should be required for every representative on every level of government.”

582. “At its core, government welfare is predicated on a false compassion.”

583. “I learned that you lean into your family, ask for help, and show compassion.”

584. “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.”

585. “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.”

586. “Because of my mom's compassion, direction, and knowledge, she gives me that extra push to be the best person I can be.”

587. “I'm trying to stay focused - trying to open up again - and the music really did a lot of greatness for me and meeting a lot of people that really had concern and compassion for me.”

588. “Kindness and compassion aren't political qualities even though they get politicized.”

589. “In their zeal to show compassion, liberal community activists are quick to offer government handouts and, in the process, convey the message that people are incapable of making it on their own.”

590. “I do have a lot of care, concern, and compassion for disadvantaged people.”

591. “Voters in 1960 elected the first Catholic president. In 2012, I voted to reelect the first African American president. Each was a vote for a man of principle and character, for a man who had proved himself capable and courageous and who would lead our country with a combination of dignity, compassion and toughness along a path of progress.”

592. “Studying my grandfather's life and legacy has shown me what it takes to be a good public servant. Curiosity. Compassion for others. Humility. Determination to stand tall for your beliefs in the face of opposition. No one believed these things more than my grandfather.”

593. “As actors, our job is to step into other people's shoes, So our capacity for compassion is like, next level, and that's why it's rare that you find a non-liberal actor.”

594. “A finance minister should have a basic understanding of the country, know where the shoe pinches and, hence, have some compassion in policy formulation. An ability to understand economic issues should certainly be there.”

595. “If we accept ourselves as animals, and have empathy and tolerance, compassion to others, understand that humans are territorial, aggressive and have gender aspects, then we can change things.”

596. “At the end of the day, I believe we can all work to foster a spirit of compassion, understanding, and awareness within our communities.”

597. “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.”

598. “Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the pain of others, all these are good reasons to make laws that protect people in their rights.”

599. “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?”

600. “What is kindness? For me, it is about treating people how you would want to be treated ‚Äì but, with so many of us living out our lives on social media, it can be harder and harder to show compassion to those around us.”

601. “We are in this world to learn and embody compassion and love.”

602. “Compassion should be universal.”

603. “Jim Ross has such compassion for the fans. That's because this is natural for him, it's a love, just like the love Gordon Solie had for the business.”

604. “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.”

605. “In fact, if you think hard about it, animal conservation should actually be anathema to the Darwin-loving liberal agenda, which holds up evolution - and not altruistic compassion - as the final word on the survival of a species.”

606. “Sen. Akaka's care, empathy and compassion were evident to everyone who knew him.”

607. “If you care about people, then you're willing to act not just with compassion, but you're also willing to act with courage.”

608. “I believe that you have to live a life that involves both courage and compassion.”

609. “Whenever we love or care for anything in our lives we're willing to respond with care and with compassion, but if something that we love or someone we love is threatened, we're also willing to respond with courage.”

610. “Britain has always told the world that being British is about the humanity, compassion and moral fortitude that we have. All great things that we are supposed to have spread across the world. A leave vote now says that we don't really care about anyone else, we don't care what happens to the European Union.”

611. “Russia is a very different place than what we in the West are familiar with. We cannot apply our own values and judgments to the country. We need to have greater compassion and understanding and recognize that our similarities are greater than our differences.”

612. “I'm all about preaching forgiveness and compassion.”

613. “It's always better to treat those with whom you disagree with compassion - if not for compassion's sake, then because it makes it much more likely that they'll actually be willing to listen to what you have to say.”

614. “Regrettably, the media are seemingly incapable of mentioning the words 'compassion' and 'Trump' in the same sentence.”

615. “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.”

616. “My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.”

617. “Fraternity and compassion are written into nature's DNA.”

618. “Guru Nanak Dev ji's life and teachings give a message of affection, compassion and brotherhood for the entire humanity.”

619. “And that's the case with all of James McMurtry's songs. He never presents these characters for us to judge, but only to sympathize with. He has a capacity for compassion with every sketch that he makes with a person that he is not.”

620. “Christopher believed that to overcome any adversity, no matter how challenging, you need to go forward each day with strength, determination and compassion.”

621. “I'm a human person, so I do have some sort of compassion for even the people I'm mocking. But at the end of the day, I'm the little guy taking on the big guy. That to me is not bullying. That's satire.”

622. “History is not merely a procession of people in fancy dress fighting wars. It is crucially the story of man's evolution from grunting cave dweller to serious thinker, from cruelly retributive law to merciful law, from casual barbarism to care and compassion.”

623. “Creating unity and compassion and understanding of each of our brothers and sisters is so powerful. We have to preach that to the ones that don't want to listen and understand.”

624. “There is no question Angelina makes a difference in our world by bringing awareness to so many causes. Her compassion for humanity alone always makes me honored to call her my sister.”

625. “Some say there is no uniquely Canadian identity, that our multicultural fabric is too varied to establish a common thread. I disagree. My grandfather came to a country that celebrates diversity, embraces strife with compassion and respects selfless idealism.”

626. “Years now, decades, of visiting my parents behind bars taught me hard lessons about how broken the criminal justice system is - about how devoid of compassion it is. It's not healing the harm that victims experience. It's not rehabilitating people. And in many ways, it's making us less safe.”

627. “The governor should be a public servant, who listens, brings people together and governs with compassion.”

628. “Eliminate laws and dogmas that hinder the progress of the world and develop the heart in the form of compassion.”

629. “Walter Mercado means love, peace and understanding, means compassion.”

630. “Even when there's disagreements politically or among veterans or among advocacy organizations, let's agree to do that respectfully and show care and compassion to those who have served us.”

631. “I think it's gonna take a sincere empathy and compassion for people of all races, to really reflect and process on the true history of the black community in this country. The history has been filled with incredible oppression and we really have to acknowledge that, to start to change the lens of how we see true equality.”

632. “Secure, safe borders with physical barriers, proper technology, manpower, and a sufficient number of judges is attainable and important to the security of our nation. We must also treat these children at the border with compassion and decency.”

633. “Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness: with skill, with compassion and with urgency.”

634. “I have always had tremendous amount of patience, compassion and forgiveness.”

635. “We need to see kindness and we need to see empathy and compassion. That's something we need to see in leadership as well.”

636. “Louisiana values both compassion and sustainable employment that provides for our families.”

637. “I had a pretty well-adjusted style of parenting. I think my parents were very young, very open. I think I learned many things from them: etiquette and grace, compassion and charity. And who I am today is due to a lot of attributes of my parents.”

638. “I want to see more families have more compassion, more empathy in understanding that not every family is sitting there intentionally saying, 'I don't care about everybody else.' They're just trying to do the best that they can.”

639. “If we start treating addiction as a public health issue, with more compassion, and without the criminal element, our society will be better off and violence and public safety will improve as a result. We'll also be taking a big step in taking down the prison-industrial complex that disproportionately harms communities of color.”

640. “Friends comfort you in the time of need, offer sound advice and are a sounding board, are forgiving and nonjudgmental, perhaps most of all, show you compassion, care, and are sensitive toward you.”

641. “We often want the world to think we are strong and everything is perfect, when the reality is sometimes we are hurting and need a shoulder to cry on or just compassion or empathy.”

642. “If someone is told they have depression or addiction, why don't we allow them the same compassion and time for healing as if they were diagnosed with high blood pressure or diabetes? These are all illnesses for which treatment exists and recovery is possible.”

643. “When people would ask me what do you do, I'd say I make music for cartoons. I could see the compassion in their eyes. I gotta tell you, there was no room for compassion: I was making money hand over fists.”

644. “People's lives and livelihoods are often in their hands, and it is critical that judges have integrity, honesty, compassion, and impartiality.”

645. “When I was chair of the OC Board of Supervisors, I introduced a resolution that called for tolerance and compassion towards all residents, and condemned discrimination against the AAPI community.”

646. “Arsene Wenger threw up a whole different way of managing through love, with kindness, consideration and compassion.”

647. “Love, compassion and understanding can help the world become a better place.”

648. “Basketball is a medium. Sports is a medium. But it's for every day life. It's to help you alleviate suffering and replace it with peace, love and compassion.”

649. “We can't lose our sense of humanity, our compassion for people.”

650. “I remain dedicated to advocating for policies that uphold our values of justice and compassion as we actively address border challenges at the federal level.”

651. “God loves every sinner, but we model true compassion when we remain 'pro-traditional marriage' and conscientiously opposed to all deviations from it. This follows common sense and five millennia of moral teaching.”