Compassion Quotes
When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.
Today I will take the opportunity to do unanticipated good.
To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)
Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower.
...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.
If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)
A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin—seeping, spreading, and affecting more than the original need.
Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.
One who utters speech that isn't rough But instructive and truthfulSo that he offends no one, Him I call Brahmin.
Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.
Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters.Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence.When a message has no clothes onHow can it be spoken.
We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.
What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)
surround yourself with people who allow you to be yourself, it does not mean be around others who do not have a sense of right or wrong, who lack respect, love and compassion for others.
Love and accept everyone for who they are, for where they are in life. That is compassion.
Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning, /as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.
It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour.A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.
Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self.
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patternsof fear & jealousy.
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
The essence of the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) is about identifying the cause of our suffering & alleviating it.
Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself.
Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand.
To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion.
I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.
Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience.
She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.
Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease.
To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52)
Wake up wild one! Your mind is a cageless bird waiting to fly to uncharted lands. Like the phoenix, you'll rise again with renewed vigor, clarity, compassion and insight.
She'd been taking care of others for so long that she scarcely recognized herself when she looked in the mirror.
Eden Fruitarianism is the solution to the dilemma of the screaming carrot.
You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help them, who will?
Sending love to all those who are trying their best to be nice and gentle despite being in the midst of negative as well as critical people…
If you can’t see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you’re not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself.
when you hate others, you hate yourself.when you hate yourself, you hate others.when you love others, you love yourself.when you love yourself, you love others.there is no separation.
Being right is massively overrated, especially when it comes at the expense of being compassionate and kind.
Approaching this day with optimism and fire, with patience and determination, with compassion and love.
