Rose McGowan Quotes

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.

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

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

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

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.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.

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.

I'm one of those people that, if I hear about something happening, I go crazy. I want to go help.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

People see a hungry face, and they want to feed it; that's a natural response.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

There's no compassion like the penny.

They have a right to criticize who have the heart to help.

The only time I ever get choked is when I'm at Make-A-Wish headquarters, because you're talking and working with people who share the same ideals.

Part of what I've tried to do since I became 'Hangman' is try to give back to the world because I know I can make people feel a little more uncomfortable than maybe most wrestlers do.

In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.

I have the kind of conscience that it doesn't feel right if I watch other people suffer and I do nothing about it.

Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.