Top compassion Quotes Collection - Page 12
Discover a curated collection of compassion quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 12 provides more compassion quotes.
I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.Collection: Compassion
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it."Collection: Compassion
Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.Collection: Compassion
My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.Collection: Compassion
Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of natureCollection: Compassion
Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.Collection: Compassion
Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family.Collection: Compassion
Compassion allows us to understand that, as citizens of the planet, we’re all in this together and that in order to ensure our survival we must hold and cultivate a new and larger vision of what’s possible for ourselves and for the human race as a whole.Collection: Compassion
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.Collection: Compassion
What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?Collection: Compassion
Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?Collection: Compassion
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.Collection: Compassion
Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.Collection: Compassion
Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulnessCollection: Compassion
It's easy enough to predict that there will be conflict, but you place yourself in a maelstrom when you offer a view about the conflict, and I don't have an investment in one side or the other; I feel compassion for both sides. I've spent a fair amount of time in Gaza and Israel, done a lot of reporting and lived over there, and the tragedy is sometimes overwhelming. At the same time, America does have an investment in what happens.Collection: Compassion
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballsCollection: Compassion
Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.Collection: Compassion
Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.Collection: Compassion
You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.Collection: Compassion
One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.Collection: Compassion
If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.Collection: Compassion
To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.Collection: Compassion
By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.Collection: Compassion
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.Collection: Compassion
As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.Collection: Compassion
No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassionCollection: Compassion
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.Collection: Compassion
Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.Collection: Compassion
From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute.Collection: Compassion
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.Collection: Compassion
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.Collection: Compassion
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.Collection: Compassion
We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.Collection: Compassion
What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the fact that the patron saint of modern liberalism, John Stuart Mill, thought that barbarian peoples like the Indians were unfit for self-rule.Collection: Compassion
And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the center of religion and morality and not put other's secondary goals, less demand goals, into the forefront.Collection: Compassion
If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.Collection: Compassion
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.Collection: Compassion
I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.Collection: Compassion
When I am in Tibet, I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. The Dalai Lama's holiness generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.Collection: Compassion
The early doctrines of the church, even doctrines like Trinity and Incarnation were originally also calls for action, calls for selflessness, calls for compassion, and unless you live that out compassionately, selflessly, you didn't understand what the doctrine was saying.Collection: Compassion
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.Collection: Compassion
Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.Collection: Compassion
Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?Collection: Compassion
Compassion is not a popular virtueCollection: Compassion
The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.Collection: Compassion
We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)Collection: Compassion
If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.Collection: Compassion
...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for othersCollection: Compassion
Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue.Collection: Compassion