Compassion Quotes
Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!
If you haven't walked in someone else's shoes, it's difficult to know the fit, so be kind and compassionate.
My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his friend.
By serving humanity, I automatically serve myself.
Compassion doesn't arise from the belief that the evil in the world is somebody else's fault or that it is a result of poor choices a suffering person has made.
Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.
The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.
The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them.
Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.
Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.
If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.
We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves.
Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart
You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.
The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true targets of the ego system...
When we look into the eyes of others with compassion, our personal biases suddenly begin to fade away. Then, we can see others for what they truly are, Human.
When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.
Who doesn't want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated – it matters...that people matter.
The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.
When bad things happen or you don't get your own way, if you can open your heart to compassion instead of shunting it down in anger, you're going to create more light.
We should never let another person get under our skin to the point that we feel hate for them
For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.
It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person's history from their face.
The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.
Nothing is wrong with her that is dangerous or harmful. She just feels deeper than others
Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?
When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?
Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient’s mind, awaiting his awakening.
Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
Once you understand love, you don’t need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don’t need a reward for breathing.
If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.
In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.
I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.
It is only once you see the baffled expression on the face of your enemy when you give his cruel words a warm smile that you’ll understand, truly understand, what love is all about.
Be a gift, a light, a blessing as far as the eye can see to answer a call as well as a genuine, compassionate heart can reach.
In the evangelical world, prying can be an indicator of compassion.
Whenever you feel insignificant, remember that you can makea significant differencein the lives of others, particularly the less fortunate.
There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.