Laura Whitmore Quotes

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

Everyone deserves compassion.

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.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.

We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

It blows my mind that anyone could be unkind to anyone.

My upbringing was faith-based, but we believed you should love all others as you want to be loved, because everyone should be treated equally. That's helped me have an understanding of people on different journeys and in different walks of life. At the end of the day, we're all the same, because we all want to be loved.

I always think you have to show a degree of humanity and sensitivity when you're dealing with people in extreme circumstances.

We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. At times, it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization. Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

I think it would be a far greater world if people were kinder and more respectful to each other.