Chris Smalling Quotes

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

My mom, ever since we were little girls, has really always rallied us together - my sister, our friends - to instill in us the fact that other people don't have what we have, so we have to be really thankful for things.

I have everything that I would possibly imagine. I have a family that loves me and that's... more than most kids have. And it's really awesome for me to experience this life... because most kids don't have this life, and I'm trying to reach out to them and help them.

Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

Sometimes I leave an encounter or a conversation hoping that I didn't come off as above my raisin' - hoping that I didn't make somebody feel bad for not having as much as we're fortunate to have.

You can think you're living in the moment and you're thankful, but when somebody comes face to face with you and says, 'I just lost my child,' or 'I have months to live, and thank you...' I'm of course sad for them, but I'm thankful that I gave them a gift and they're giving me a gift.

We're all human at the end of the day. That's why I look at every person I encounter the same way.

I've been very blessed. I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

We think the ability to rattle off people you are grateful to and thankful to is often sort of a proxy for openness to learning from others.

We're all people at the end of the day.

But one of the best things away from playing was a visit to a Mumbai slum. You see people in their conditions, getting stuck into their way of life and not moaning, and realise how lucky you are to be doing what you are doing. It put things into perspective.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

'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.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Without humility there can be no humanity.