Compassion Quotes
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.
The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.
Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.
If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.
If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.
Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.
In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.
Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.
One will develop ruchi (liking) for chanting of the holy names, when one has compassion for each and every living being.
Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.
Just as I defend myself, therefore, From all unpleasant happenings however small, Likewise, I shall act for others' sake To guard and to protect them with compassion.
I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship.
When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.
The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone.
Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
My heart, far too sensitivefor this human world.My heart, so easily wounded, sheds rose tears of compassion.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time.
Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.
May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.
Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.
Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.
It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.
