Explore Quotes on Compassion

When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity;_x000D__x000D_when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes_x000D__x000D_compassion. To train in compassion, then, is to know_x000D__x000D_all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways,_x000D__x000D_to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are_x000D__x000D_neither separate from nor superior to anyone.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Compassion is a two way street.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Fair and softly goes far.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

Compassion is not against anger. When anger disappears, compassion is. Compassion is not to be fought for; it is not against passion. When passion disappears, compassion is. Compassion is your nature.

Understanding transforms, it does not sublimate. If you understand, anger disappears and the same energy becomes compassion. Not that you sublimate: anger simply disappears, and the energy that was involved, invested in anger, is released and becomes compassion. When you understand hate, hate disappears and the same energy becomes love. Love is not against hate -- it is absence of hate.

Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness.

If you are angry you will share anger, if you are greedy you will share greed, if you are full of lust you will share your lust. We can share only that which we have, we cannot share that which we don't have. This has to be the fundamental thing to be remembered; hence the first step is meditation and the second step is compassion.

Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation.

An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.

He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.