Quotes on Compassion

Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

Don't forget to love yourself.

We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.

Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.