Compassion Quotes
Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.
We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.
No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.
Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind
Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.
I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.
Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.
And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.
People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.
Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.
I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.
I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?
Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.
I don't understand love quite honestly. I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.
Compassion is for the very strong. Compassion does not come to the weak. People who are unkind, bullies, use rude language, are not strong people. They are very weak people.
Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.
What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.