Compassion Quotes
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About compassion You can have the ‘golden rule’-do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther-where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.
Jennifer Beals
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If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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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.
Dean Frazer
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I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable.
Dalai Lama
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Nothing stirs God’s heart more than a humble heart and a merciful spirit. God responds to mercy, because it is through compassion that we fully come to know Him. This is the defining quality of a true follower of Christ. We are never closer to the heart of God than when we are forgiving someone. And we are never farther from it than when we are holding a grudge.
Nicky Cruz
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The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.
Dalai Lama
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I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.
Dalai Lama
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All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
Bill Vaughan
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Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.
Raymond Pettibon
Black Flag
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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.
Willem Dafoe
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It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.
Cheri Huber
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To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice compassion and avoid causing others pain. And to the extent that suffering awakens our empathy and causes us to connect with others, it serves as the basis of compassion and love.
Dalai Lama
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God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
Richard Rohr
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Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.
Dalai Lama
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A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility
Dalai Lama
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
William Sloane Coffin
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Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
Brooke Shields
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It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
Penn Jillette
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Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.
Dalai Lama
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God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.
Mother Teresa
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Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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True compassion is utterly neutral and is moved by suffering of every sort; not tied to right and wrong, attachment and aversion.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
