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Compassion Quotes
"As you straighten your hand to receive some blessings from God, be sure to extended your other hand to help someone who is in desperate need, despite how small it might be."
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"Service for one another, service for mankind."
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"When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster."
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"Your suffering is here to help you unfold and to awaken into compassion, love and strength."
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"He is ugly and sad... but he is all love."
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"If you want to feel the truest spirit of Christmas, go out and find someone sadder than you, lonelier than you, poorer than you, and give what you can in a smile, in time, in compassion. The best Christmases always require the gift of self."
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"I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it."
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"Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return."
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"If you know someone that has given up hope, try giving that person some of your peace, joy, and faith!"
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"Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important."
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"Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?"
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"To be a rainbow in someone's cloud is commendable, but I prefer to be the rain because it dampens cheeks and washes away tears."
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"To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other."
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"You should either be like the candle that produces light or you live like mirror which reflects it. Pray for love; Sow love, Show love and Share love!"
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"You don't have to be perfect, just be loving and compassionate."
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"It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion."
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"Wherever you go in the next catastrophe,
Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemetery,
Do not fear that your stay will be solitary;
Countless souls share your fate,
you'll have company!"
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"You benefit when you do not further entangle (confuse) an already entangled person or you benefit when you remove his entanglement. But what happens when you entangle the one who is already entangled? God is sitting within him, isn't he?"
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"Unnecessary violence against animals is a heinous crime. Be a voice for those who do not have one."
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"It is love, has been love, will always be love that makes the biggest difference in our world."
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"Though love may be blind, it sees much; though it may be deaf, it hears much; though it may be mute, it says much; and though it may be lame, it does much."
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"Practice self-compassion and experience the priceless feeling of emotional safety."
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"The beauty of compassion is free, and everyone is welcome to it."
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"We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; we are stung with the recollection of a thousand slighted opportunities of fulfilling the wishes of those who will soon pass away from among us: and do they ask us for the future happiness of our lives, we lay it at their feet, and will it away from us."
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"Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it."
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"And Sir, it is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion."
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"Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come."
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"We all are so deeply interconnected, we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe."
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"Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us."
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"There's something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good."
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"Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human."
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"The greatest you is found in the kindest you."
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"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."
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"Love and kindness are most precious where there is endless suffering."
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"Compassion is an ordinary intent that is felt for everywhere in this world and it is the intent that, 'the whole world is trapped in worldly miseries; how can their miseries be alleviated?"
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"The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens."
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"Light up the radiant flame of conscience, goodwill and compassion in your heart, and go over the length and breadth of your society in the pursuit of shedding light over the whole world. And in time, you'll become a glorious sun that will shine over the entire human population."
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"When we all become more compassionate, there will probably be less suffering in the world."
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"Compassion is a sign of inner peace. Kindness is a sign of inner strength. Be kind and be compassionate."
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"Love is the nature of who God is."
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"Let us welcome each other with tender love."
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"Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent."
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"Find out the needs of the people you are ministering to and help them overcome their fears."
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"TouchKindness never use harsh words its touch warmth the needy person."
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"No one should feel hurt by you, you should make everyone happy and leave."
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"A blessed deed is saying hello with a smile to someone you meet on the street, in the shop, in the bus, in the office, in the church, in the holy places, in the mosque, at the park, at the school, at the university..' This is the greatest action of belonging to one another."
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"Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart."
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"Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence."
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