Compassion Quotes
The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.
It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.
The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start, then you'd have quit this Game before you played it.
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.
He is a principled man, and compassionate, someone who will remind himself of your best qualities while struggling to forgive your worst. In short, he is a friend.
To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
Just because she isn't human, do you think that means she doesn't feel pain?
If someone is facing a difficult time, one of the kindest things you can do for him or her is to say, “I’m just going to love you through this.
When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.
The pain on the inside is what keeps you human, ' she said. 'Never forget that.
The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.
Having a vested interest in other souls unconditionally creates a ripple effect that produces miracles in the lives of those around us.
Dear God, give bread to those who are hungry and a hunger and thirst for justice to those who have plenty. Amen.
A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it.
If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics, " Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.
A simple truth delivered in kindness may be the impetus that ignites a passionate fire in another’s soul and goes on to become the source of motivation for positive change.
Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.
We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you.
Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.
It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person.
What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.
I believe the vital ingredient is love—a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.
While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again
It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others.
Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN...
We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.
There is no problem that greater consciousness and compassion, enjoined with positive resolve of will cannot solve.
The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.
Spread your happiness to others and let them spread theirs to you.
It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.
Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.
...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...
No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.
Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, "Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.
She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost.