Compassion Quotes
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.
Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.
In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all.
Remember that you don't have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy.
The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.
With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.
Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
The real platform for religion is based on the concepts of compassion, respect and consideration, not just for human beings, but for all forms of life.
I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.
Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.
Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding.
Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.
To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.
Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.
Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.
If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.
See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.
Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.
You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.
Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.
Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.
Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?
There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion.
Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
...with the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.
Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.
I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.
Everyday, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals, but helps the environment.
Such is the compassion, such the love which Mary bears us, that she is never tired of praying for us.
