Compassion Quotes

When people hear needs, it provokes compassion.

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.

Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

Love looks like something.

As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

So if you have over-indulged during the holidays, for example, please don't beat yourself up, but rather have compassion and forgiveness and perhaps, even try the Ho'oponono technique.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.

Fill your mind with compassion.

The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

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.

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

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.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

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

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.

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.

You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.

Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.

In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.

The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed.

Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.

When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself.

Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.

Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.

This divine Compassion is spontaneous Delight. In it there is no feeling of separativity, no feeling that one is superior and the other is inferior. No! It is a feeling of oneness.

I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.