Compassion Quotes
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.
Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.
By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.
In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.
When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.
Bodh Gaya is a land of enlightenment. Years ago, what Bodh Gaya got was Siddhartha but what Bodh Gaya gave to the world was Lord Buddha, the epitome of knowledge, peace and compassion.
The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.
If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.
It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair, crooked toes. I support those who have done nothing large.
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man
Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.
I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.
She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.
But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.
I understand why many are still poor or struggling to make just a middle-income lifestyle. I'm a fiscal conservative, but I also have compassion for people who make financial mistakes.
When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.
People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
When we radiate the warmth of our love-energy, our compassion-energy on the planet, we shine the qualities of our Source!
The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.
Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!
We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.
We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.
A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.
True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.
NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.
Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.
We need to forgive - but mindfully. We need compassion that powered by wisdom. That's the way to address our bullies.
We believe in a government strong enough to use words like "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities.
I feel like my joy in life has intensified, (and) my compassion for people has just strengthened. I have compassion that I wouldn't have had before.
A miracle is when we respond with compassion where a moment ago we may have believed there was something to be upset, blaming, or angry about.
Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.
Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.
Being poor in Africa is something people in America can't relate to. Part of the challenge is bringing that reality to people and moving them. You have to arouse compassion.