Compassion Quotes
Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!
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.
When we radiate the warmth of our love-energy, our compassion-energy on the planet, we shine the qualities of our Source!
People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
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.
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.
We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.
But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.
I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.
Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.
We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man
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.
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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.
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.
If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.
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.
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.
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.
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
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.
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.
By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.
Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.
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.
Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.
One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.
Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.
It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.
Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.
By “empathy,” some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.
When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.
I now have a greater compassion than I have ever had before to know what it is to have the pain of a broken marriage. And I'm not saying I have an answer or solution for everyone.
we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.
I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there.
Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.
Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.
