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.
Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.
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.
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.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.
Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.
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.
You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.
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.
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.
'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.
'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.
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.
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.'
