Compassion Quotes
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A person who respects others is respected by others in return. Those who treat others with compassion and concern are protected and supported by others. Our environment is essentially a reflection of ourselves
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It's very rare to be in a state where there's nothing in, where you have no attachment to any idea or concept about yourself. In that state you've immediately raised the mind of compassion, because if nothing is in, everything is in, and you are now free to experience yourself as the world.
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Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
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All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other.
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What makes us different from other species is our capacity for compassion and empathy with the struggles of other people.
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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
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I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect.
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The Pope, if nothing else, should be a Catholic. If he were to announce that women would make great priests, except it's a pity that more of them aren't gay, because of the greater compassion they could bring to the task, it might endear him to liberal Catholic commentators , but it would make him something other than a Catholic, in the true sense.
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If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.
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Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.
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Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.
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Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.
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I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.
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All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.
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Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.
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Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.
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Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.
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With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no affect on your attitude.
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Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.
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Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.
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When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.
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I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.
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The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being
