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Compassion Quotes
"Be compassionate and kind to yourself and everyone around you."
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"I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?"
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"To change your life, love yourself. To change your community, love others. To change the world, love everyone."
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"Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it."
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"When we harm others we harm ourselves, when we help others we help ourselves."
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"Always wear a jacket of love and a smile of gratitude."
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"By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined."
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"If you think someone or something other than yourself is responsible for your happiness or success, I'd guess you're not that happy or successful."
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"We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on."
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"To demonstrate the deeds of the kingdom is to love and understand the deeds."
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"Only love can inspire us to sacrifice."
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"Such a number of nights,' said the girl, with a touch of woman's tenderness, which communicated something like sweetness of tone, even to her voice; 'such a number of nights as I've been patient with you, nursing and caring for you, as if you had been a child: and this the first that I've seen you like yourself; you wouldn't have served me as you did just now, if you'd thought of that, would you? Come, come; say you wouldn't."
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"Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves."
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"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
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"You can have a pet zebra and put that zebra into a small cage every day and tell the zebra that you love it, but no matter how you and the zebra love each other, the fact remains, that the zebra should be let out of that cage and should belong to someone who can treat it better, the way it should be treated, someone who can make it happy."
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"It is only kindness and love, which can change the human heart."
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"Never underestimate the pains of others but consider yourself lucky."
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"Loving-kindness challenges those states that tend to arise when we think of ourselves as isolated from everyone else-fear, a sense of deficiency, alienation, loneliness."
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"Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication."
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"An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth."
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"Compassion, not castigation is the way to help a person become better."
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"The spirit of Christmas is found when we lift the load of others."
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"Oliver has long since grown stout and healthy; but health or sickness made no difference in his warm feelings to those about him, though they do in the feelings of a great many people. He was still the same gentle, attached, affectionate creature that he had been when pain and suffering had wasted his strength; and when he was dependent for every slight attention and comfort on those who tended him."
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"How bitter they cry in need, those who refuse to help others in trouble!"
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"Compassion brings us closer to each other."
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"The only way to love God is by loving His people."
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"I don't kill children, she said. 'Not even when it's the right thing to do."
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"Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed."
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"To fight the poverty, we must feel the poverty."
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"We learn to love by basking in the love of other people. We learn how to express our love and our warmest feelings whenever other people grace us with the privilege of besetting upon them many acts of kindness. We unleash a germinal of internal tenderness by affectionately doting upon pets and by generously spending time admiring the natural world."
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"Be humble to those who praise you. Be pleasant to those who honor you. Be kind to those who cherish you. Be good to those who love you. Be generous to those who adore you."
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"In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love."
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"Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter."
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"The practice of understanding, forgiveness, and love is the best practice for a peaceful world."
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"Show your compassion to people in their life time, no amount of your tears can serve as compensation when their coffins are lowered!"
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"Look every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!"
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"Sharing when you have almost nothing brings you everything."
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"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled."
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"Approaching others with a loving heart enables you to be more caring, compassionate, and empathetic. What's not to love about that?"
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"If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?"
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"Whatever you dobe gentle with yourself.you don't just livein this worldor your homeor your skin.you also livein someone's eyes."
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"Nowhere in the bible did it say, "Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust." If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day."
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"To minimize hatred and oppression, our love roots must be deep and solid."
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"The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being."
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"We have to help the one who has fallen, we should not question 'why did you fall?"
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"When we fill our hearts with self-love, we kindle sparks of compassion all around us."
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"We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior."
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"Our sacrosanct obligation is to tend to our own personal wounds and furiously love the entire world irrespective if the world loves us back."
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"She thought of ... the way he never made made her feel crazy, even when she was acting crazy, and never made her feel like a failure, even when she was failing."
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"I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come across many of them, and anyhow it must be a hard vocation. That's why I decided to take, in every predicament, the victim's side, so as to reduce the damage done. Among them I can at least try to discover how on attains to the third category; in other words, to peace."
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