Compassion Quotes

• The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.

  

  Tacitus
  • People
  • Hate
  • Jews

• As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • World
  • Future

• In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be judged by the quality of the life that we foster for all members of the community and the compassion we show for the disadvantaged.

  

  Carmen Lawrence
  • Community
  • Quality
  • Growth

• The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

  

  Thomas More
  • Life
  • Death
  • Capable

• One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Pain
  • Surprise
  • Painful

• As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Children
  • Responsibility
  • Discipline

• It is a beautiful offering to Me when you lay down your judgement and choose compassion. When you love others the way I love you, when you hold back the consequences they could have deserved, and when you treat them the way you’d like to be treated, the you shall receive mercy as well.

  

  Angela Thomas
  • Compassion
  • Consequences
  • Judgement

• Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Responsibility
  • Decision

• I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • World
  • Believe
  • Art

• When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • May
  • motivation

• I think it's all about people loving each other and having compassion, accepting one another and educating themselves.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Compassion
  • I Think
  • Educating

• If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Pain
  • Laugh
  • Genocide

• Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Joy
  • Compassion
  • Meaningful

• Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Care
  • Generosity
  • Tragic

• Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

  

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
  • Opportunity
  • Humans
  • Canine

• Her pain came from inside herself, from her resentment of the contrariness and frustration of life, while his came most often from outside himself, growing inevitably from his compassion. It was a simplification of the difference between them to say that to the selfish comfort comes from the external things, while to the selfless consolation comes interiorly, but that was the way Daphne put it to herself.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Pain
  • Selfish
  • Frustration

• You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Compassion

• For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Compassion
  • motivation
  • Fail

• To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Passion
  • Compassion
  • Grow Old

• Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Culture
  • Journey
  • Key To Success

• What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Justice

• For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Compassion
  • Reasons
  • Meat

• Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Compassion
  • Morality
  • Guarantee

• I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

  

  Guan Moye
  • Courage
  • Understand
  • Compassion

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