Compassion Quotes
The more attention you put into being more loving, the more loving (and loved) you'll become.
There's just no time for hatred. It's lazy and destructive. We can all do better. Our world needs us to.I love you.
I can think of no greater way to live my life than with as much love as I can give, as often as I can give it.
A seed cannot grow in stone. Compassion is the fertile soil where life grows.
Never forget O Brave One, the best kind of existence is to exist for others.
It is impossible to experience a person’s life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.
See this abdicated beast, once kingOf them all, nibble his claws:Not anger enough left—no, nor despair—To break his teeth on the bars.
Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peace and compassion.
We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that our brethren experience.
We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by expressing compassion and sympathy for the entire community of life.
There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. Love is holiness, discrimination is sin.
I've never known someone to become more at home in his or her own body, in all of its flaws and its grace, without becoming more compassionate to all of life.
What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.
If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.
Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions.
A compassionate kind can see the animal as a living being, as a friend, as a family, as soul, as an expression of life. Be compassionate.
The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.
Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.
The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out.
Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.
The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God’s redemption to the world.
Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.
Surrendering to the best of my abilities when the price of life has outweighed its benefit may be a compassionate choice for me and those around me.
How do we change the world? By sending out a ripple of love that will affect one person at a time.
Human beings have a deep need to bond and form connections. If we can’t connect with each other, we will connect with whatever we can find … It is disconnection that drives addiction.
Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.
No one consciously chooses addiction to a substance or behavior over his partner. There are always reasons – powerful ones – why a person retreats into addiction.
Ignite the fire of loving kindness in your soul, fuel that fire with understanding and compassion for others, and start a bonfire of love worldwide.
Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment.
No matter how smart YOU THINK you are or how smart others THINK that you are, you're never going to be somewhere OR someone you're not. _nickc
Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cultivating kindness, charity, and love.
I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.
The greatest lesson you might ever learn in this life is this: It is not about you.
When the wind blows in your face, when you feel you are losing your head, when the going gets tough, and when all else fails, look inside you, you are not alone.
Despite the fact that we cannot be absolutely altruistic in our behavior, we can still build our character to be loving and compassionate – to empathize with others.
It probably takes many years of monastic practice to equal the spiritual growth generated by one sleepless night with a sick child.
Without compassion for a fellow man, for great splendors of our Sister, Mother Earth the humankind will never reconcile with itself.
The term compassion means shared suffering. You develop compassion by knowing what it is like to suffer.
You can have all the titles in the world but if you cannot treat others as you would yourself, you have no love to give!
Survive, survive and survive – these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean.
There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you