Compassion Quotes
I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.
Oxytocin is lauded for how it promotes warmth, generosity, social bonding, cooperation, trust, and compassion.
Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.
If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.
But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.
I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.
If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?
When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.
From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.
Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
Humanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is what will ultimately keep us going when all else has failed.
You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion, that's considered good meditation.
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.
I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.
Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.
People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.
If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.
We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom.
When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one's life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.
If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.
To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
I am going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone, but my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.