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Compassion Quotes
"Although we are urged to walk in another man's shoes, I think, first, we have to walk in another pair of our own shoes. Doing that will free up a lot, including our ability to be more compassionate and less judgmental."
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"As long as we don't buckle under the weight of the pain and its longevity, when the pain does subside a bit, we find ourselves more inclined to feel compassion for other people going through their own rough spots - CHALLENGES INSPIRE COMPASSION."
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"Life will teach or beat you all you need to know. My advice take the compassionate class and peaceful path."
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"Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving."
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"When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it's often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves."
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"Behind every angry soul is a wounded child that just wanted you to love them for who they are."
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"See and live life for the wonderful gift that it is ...acknowledging everyone's beauty, flaws, frailty, strength, gifts and possibilities. Honour and cherish it and above be loving and compassionate. Here is the birthplace of inner and worldly peace."
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"Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us."
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"Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human."
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"We are nothing without compassion for others and for all other beings!"
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"As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath."
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"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion."
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"Our service as believers is in our help and attitude towards others."
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"We must heal this terminally ill world with love."
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"The solution to self-pity is found in the labor of selfless giving to others."
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"We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness."
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"Zarathustra answered: "I love mankind."
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"Compassion is given freely with no expectation of reward."
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"In someone's darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light."
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"The great soul understands the small-minded."
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"This is what I find myself writing to myself on the page:I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long. I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it - I will love you through that, as well. If you don't need the medication, I will love you, too. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me."
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"It's easy to rebuke each other's opinions, but can we honor each other's pain? Can we make the effort to see beyond the portraits we've painted of one another, and to connect to the humanity that thrives beneath our own assumptions? Can we be relentless in our desire to tear down walls, and to build bridges? Can we be brave and stay committed to the conversations that need to be had?The only thing I know about these questions is that I need to replace the we with I, and begin to answer them from there.One thing I know for sure: I want to become the example I wish to see in others. That's a good place to start.Another thing I know for sure: I love you. You're beautiful. You rock."
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"Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike."
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"What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself. Proles, it suddenly occurred to him, had remained in this condition. They were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another."
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"One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself."
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"You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion."
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"Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness, with Christ it brings compassion."
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"You don't do kind deeds expecting kindness in return. You don't do kind deeds because you deem the recipient worthy. You do kind deeds because it's who you are, and because you understand the powerful difference your gentle hand makes in this dreary world."
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"It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You."
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"We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity-with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies."
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"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."
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"If you despise your people, you will disregard them. If you hate your people, you will harm them. If you esteem your people, you will serve them. If you love your people, you will even die for them."
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"Learning to breathe fire isn't nearly as extraordinary as learning to breathe a word of kindness."
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"Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt."
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"He's better now, Loo. He's taking care of the cats."
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"When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away."
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"One of the best things about humans is their ability to love."
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"God needs are in the needs of people."
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"If only you would understand the silent speech and the real pain within the innermost man of they that suffer in silence, you would never keep silent to their suffering. So many people can't speak everything about how they are suffering for the sake of dignity and confidentiality. Though they smile, they smile out of a deep pain within. When you look at someone suffering, just see how he is suffering and in so far as you can, be the joy to the innermost man of the person to the best of your ability. Don't wait for his words, just look and see!"
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"I do not believe in a Science that cannot wipe the tears of a widow, or bring a piece of bread to the starving mouth of an orphan. However sophisticated may be the scientific achievements, however well-spun may be the philosophy behind them, I do not call them Science, unless they are put to practice in the pursuit of easing the sufferings of the human society."
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"The difficulties of people should be our business."
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"To radiate joy is to reveal deep compassion for hurting people."
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"Compassion is not a sometime action, it's an every time passion! You can't be compassionate for less than 7 days in one week... That's first class hypocrisy!"
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"When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to make it more bearable. You are eager to learn the unique language of their existence. You want to understand them, inspire them, heal them. What if you could look at yourself this way?"
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"Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself."
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"Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves."
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