Compassion Quotes
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If you can understand, you can feel compassion.
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Compassion takes imagination.
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We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond
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Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.
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Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
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To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of his or her neighbors into the political arena.
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Our compassion is the fruit of our spiritual lives; it actually arises spontaneously when formed by intention in our spiritual practice. Love and compassion are always the goods of the spiritual journey, and they are guided by divine wisdom, which then shapes compassion in the concrete situations of our existence.
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I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.
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unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.
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Ordinarily, I am the person who falls in love quickly and somewhat inappropriately and then goes on to destroy what is a good thing. That's always been my style. So, you know: I get it. And I feel right now the way I imagine all those guys felt with me. And I have to say, for the first time in my life, I feel something approaching compassion for them.
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When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire.
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Now, as an adult, I appreciate those memories. Mom taught me the importance of compassion for your waitress, your crossing guard, your mailman.
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Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.
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A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.
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The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.
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The compassion of Christlike friends deeply touches and changes our lives.
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It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.
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I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.
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If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.
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Teaching my kids to give back is an essential part of parenting. It's not something that's optional. Compassion is one of the basic values that I want my children to have: that if they see a need, whether it's around the corner or thousands of miles of away, they should feel motivated to do whatever they can to help.
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There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learned to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcasts, the suspects, the maltreated - in short, from the perspective of those who suffer. Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior. Christians are called to compassion and to action.
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In the eyes of God, a child on the other side of the border is no less worthy of love and compassion than my own child. We - we can't distinguish between them in terms of their worth and their inherent dignity and that they're deserving of shelter and love and education and opportunity. We can't isolate ourselves. We can't hide behind a wall.
