Compassion Quotes
-
All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.
Alan Arkin
-
You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.
Jeff Bridges
-
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
Dave Eggers
-
The fact that millions of people use the term 'morality' as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.
Sam Harris
-
Compassion is a two way street.
Frank Capra
-
I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
Rachel Kushner
-
I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.
Dalai Lama
-
I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.
Geoff Hoon
-
I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.
Damien Chazelle
-
How do we teach a child - our own, or those in a classroom - to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have - or need - answers.
Madeleine L'Engle
-
There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion.
Dalai Lama
-
When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
-
What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.
Dalai Lama
-
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
-
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond Tutu
-
I've got a lot of different religious ideas circling through my family, but the positive thing is that I was raised with a lot of openness and compassion.
Kali Hawk
-
I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.
Rachel McAdams
-
Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship.
Dalai Lama
-
Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
Bai Ling
-
We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
Jackie Tabick
-
The sweets of Pillage can be known To no one but the Thief, Compassion for Integrity Is his divinest Grief.
Emily Dickinson
-
Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
Radhanath Swami
-
There's the Draymond Green you see out on the floor. But that's not me. I mean, it is, but there's more. People see the fiery guy, the competitive guy, the trash talk and everything. But they don't see the love and compassion. They don't see the person. They don't see the real me, who values his friends and puts people first.
Draymond Green
-
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Gary Zukav