I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.Michael Crawford
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.Penn Jillette
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.Linda Thompson
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.Lou Holtz
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.George Washington
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.Leo Rosten
Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.Yehuda Berg
If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.Marvin J. Ashton
Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.Neil Kinnock
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.Bertrand Russell
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.Mahatma Gandhi
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.Douglas MacArthur
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.Jimmy Carter
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.Erma Bombeck
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.Billy Graham
I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.Harvey Fierstein
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.Goran Persson
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.Mother Teresa
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.J.K. Rowling
More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.Roy T. Bennett
We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.Veronica Roth
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.José N. Harris
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.Deepak Chopra
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.William Jay Smith
Leadership and punching above your weight doesn't necessarily always have to mean gunboat diplomacy and bombing other countries into the stone age. It can actually mean leading by example, and helping other countries.Clive Lewis
We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.Donald Trump
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.Mother Teresa
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them.Mother Teresa
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.Elin Nordegren
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.Khalil Gibran
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.Dalai Lama
My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.Dalai Lama
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.Henry Van Dyke