Explore Quotes on Compassion

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery._x000D__x000D_We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace._x000D__x000D_The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as_x000D__x000D_anger and attachment, fear and suspicion,_x000D__x000D_while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility_x000D__x000D_are the sources of peace and happiness.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.

Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.

Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

...we must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will embrace and practice true compassion and honor the ideals of peace and freedom, and we will not give up.

By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

War would end if the dead could return.

Simplicity, patience, compassion._x000D__x000D_These three are your greatest treasures._x000D__x000D_Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being._x000D__x000D_Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are._x000D__x000D_Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~

Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.