Compassion Quotes
Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)
The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free
Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.
When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.
Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.
The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!
Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.
The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.
Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.
Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.
Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.
I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.
Anger is the energy that people use in order to act. But when you are angry, you are not lucid, and you might do wrong things. That is why compassion is a better energy.
As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.
We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations we should do so with compassion.
Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.
You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.
In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.
What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.
In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.
You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.
Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.
We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.
To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.
Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself.
Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.
Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods
Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.
The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
Have compassion towards each other, including animals. Love and respect every living being on this planet - a key factor to a greater society.
Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.
Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice.