Compassion Quotes
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.
There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.
May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.
Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness.
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.
Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love
A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.
Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.
Compassion, caring, teaching, loving, and sharing your gifts, talents, and abilities are the gateways to power.
Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility
Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It's always with us. It always has been, and always will be. When it arises in us, we've simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are.
Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.
Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion.
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.
You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.
What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.
You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.
Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.
Love is cheering and sharing and compassion, and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy, or relief to anyone or anything.
I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.
What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha within - the awakened nature we all possess.
