Compassion Quotes
The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path; some of them don't.
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.
In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.
Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.
In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act.
Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.
Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.
To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.
Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.
As we give the gifts of compassion and humility, our lives become demonstrations of the truth of God's Word.
I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.
Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.
Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.
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.
What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.
Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.
Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry.
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.
People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.
When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.
Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.
Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.
the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion
Happy Wednesday! Practice compassion. Lift others. Learn to encourage rather than criticize. You'll feel better when you help others feel better.
My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.
When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.
Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.
Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.
Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules.
As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.
