Explore Quotes on Compassion

Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.

Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering;_x000D__x000D_holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream;_x000D__x000D_each moment, life as it is, the only teacher;_x000D__x000D_being just this moment, compassion's way.

Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most breathtaking and gut-wrenching challenges of his entire Sermon on the Mount, a speech renowned for its outrageous claims. There was no record of any other spiritual leader ever having articulated such a clear-cut, unambiguous command for people to express compassion to those who are actively working against their best interests.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!

Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the art of gardening. In each one of us there are flowers and there is also garbage. The garbage is the anger, fear, discrimination, and jealousy within us. If you water the garbage, you will strengthen the negative seeds. If you water the flowers of compassion, understanding, and love, you will strengthen the positive seeds. What you grow is up to you.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does rest on is our innate moral goodness, compassion, and pity which, when liberated, lead us to value all forms of life. It is obvious, then, that willfully to take life, or through the eating of meat indirectly to cause others to kill, runs counter to the deepest instincts of human beings.

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress - freedom from anger and patient endurance of injuries; and of the perfect - humility, thirst for dishonors, voluntary craving for involuntary afflictions, non- condemnation of sinners, compassion even beyond one's strength. The first are acceptable, the second laudable; but blessed are those who hunger for hardship and thirst for dishonor, for they shall be filled with the food whereof there can be no satiety.