Quotes on Compassion

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire

There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig - an animal easily as intelligent as a dog - that becomes the Christmas ham.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.

To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.

I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.

World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.

I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.

Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction

One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of let-go in meditation and suddenly you will be able to smell the fragrance that is coming from your own innermost depth. Then the flower blossoms and compassion spreads. Meditation is the flower and compassion is its fragrance.

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion.

In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.