While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

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

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

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.

I just don’t like killing creatures.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Respect the burden.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

The American people have not become heartless.

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.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

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

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

We do not judge the people we love.

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.

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.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

People’s choice to become vegan, from people I’ve spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

I don’t use any animal products, both because of ethical and environmental and climate reasons.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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.

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

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘