Compassion Quotes
No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.
With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.
The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.
I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.
Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.
It is for us to begin. If we take one step towards the Lord, he takes ten towards us -- he who saw the prodigal son while he was at a distance, and had compassion and ran and embraced him.
As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.
Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.
One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.
Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.
Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.
Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.
If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.
So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.
Be brave enough to never yearn For that you cannot hold close In your heart forever. Tread lightly, cherish compassion And live in the moment without fear.
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.
There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion.
And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.
When love overflows and is expressed through every word and deed, we call it compassion. That is the goal of religion.
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us
On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.
Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.
Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.
