Compassion Quotes
Mother Teresa
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
3756 Neil DeGrasse Tyson
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
1240 Tahereh Mafi
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
1919 Dalai Lama XIV
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
1357 John Joseph Powell
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
2393 Amit Ray
Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.
3955 Amit Ray
There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.
2491 John Green
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
1559 Amit Ray
The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.
2425 Dalai Lama XIV
The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.
3476 Mollie Marti
Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.
3279 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Sometimes in life you find love so powerful that you get tunnel vision. You only see the one you love, the one you desire. No one or no thing gets in the way of what you feel. A love so strong which makes you feel invincible in this world. And, everywhere you go, all the people can see you glow.
3597 Germany Kent
At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.
2561 Germany Kent
1164At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.
1278 Agnostic Zetetic
Even with the very best of intentions, even with the ambition of making the world a better place, when we cast judgment upon people whose lifestyles, beliefs, or predilections we dislike, we add to the emotional filth of hostility and make the world feel a little less safe for the folks we’re genuinely trying to help.
4449 Lolly Daskal
Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.
4868 Lolly Daskal
The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.
4699 Lolly Daskal
Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.
3932 Anthony De Mello
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.
3634 Rebecca McNutt
Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took.
3593 Amit Ray
Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.
4383 Pam Farrel
The world hangs like a heart-shaped locket around my neck.
1251 Dinty W. Moore
Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.
In your writing and your life.
2134 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.
2618 Kristina McMorris
The most wonderful type of love, she had learned, was the kind built with care and over time, through forgiveness and understanding, compromise and compassion, trust and acceptance. It was hidden in the minutiae of every day life; it was in the traded smiles during a radio show or the peaceful lulls on an evening stroll.
3288 Rasheed Ogunlaru
The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free
4540 Jeniffer Niven
Take over the school, take over the town, take over the world. It will be a world of compassion, of neighbor loving neighbor, of student loving student or at least treating one another with respect. No judgments. No name-calling. No more, no more, no more.
3692 Yvonne Pierre
Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.
2801 Aisha Mirza
Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess.
2949 Rasheed Ogunlaru
Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in
1817 Christopher Moore
The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.
4999 Jennifer Hillman
Whisper sweetly the tenderness of the moment. Let the love teach you the true meaning and passion of this experience we share. With gratitude and reverence for the blessings and miracles I receive and witness, my heart still beats as the little things die to be reborn with a greater joy for life in each moment.
4434 Rasheed Ogunlaru
It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love
4299 Randy Alcorn
Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?
4200 Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.
1930 Sharon Salzberg
Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart
3295 Sharon Salzberg
In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.
4424 Sharon Salzberg
Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another.
Meditation is a way to help those values become real in day-to-day life, helping people to understand themselves more and more and have a way to not get lost in old patterns.
2746 Sharon Salzberg
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
2325 Sharon Salzberg
Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
3901 Sharon Salzberg
Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.
4480 Sharon Salzberg
When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.
2847 Allan Lokos
Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are.
2376 Rob Liano
Until people learn to love others more than they love to hate others, not much will change in this world.
3990 Richelle E. Goodrich
I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don't imagine that it's there; it's there waiting to be noticed.
4670 Bill Ayers
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
2019 Pythagoras
As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
4796 Mother Teresa
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same - with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
4670 Tahereh Mafi
His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.
In seventeen years no one has said my name like that
4918 George Carlin
If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.
1735 Albert Camus
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
3710 Noah Levine
Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.
2417 Rai Aren
I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends - the fear, the terror, the pain - and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being.
4617 Marc Bekoff
Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet
1393 Sam Levenson
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
4110 Aesop
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
2387 Mother Teresa
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
1606 Rumi
Give your weakness to one who helps.
1205 Charles De Lint
I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.
2811 Horace Mann
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
1026 Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.
3190 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Poetry is Life. We experience poetry from the time we awake each morning and inhale that fresh breath of air. You are living poetry. Poetry is not defined by the laws of man. Inspiration is the key.
3258 Gary Hopkins
People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.
3821 Aberjhani
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
3700 Doug Dillon
Other people are only aspects of our own greater being.
2595 Elizabeth Bear
She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?"
"In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.
1098 Amit Ray
When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.
4310 Ana Monnar
At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling period wisdom sets in; finally, the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.
3139 Amit Ray
If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.
4298 Allan Lokos
Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.
4026 Jean-Yves Leloup
The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)
1872 Stephen Levine
That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)
2593 Jean-Yves Leloup
It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.
1272 Amit Ray
Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.
4368 Amit Ray
Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.
4414 Margaret Atwood
We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
1366 Allan Lokos
Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.
1698 Allan Lokos
To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.
2293 Lao Tzu
The heart that gives, gathers.
2761 Mollie Marti
Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.
3310 Allan Lokos
Peace can be found within, no matter the external circumstances.
3541 Odille Rault
Be Relentless in your Compassion for it is Your Power.
1093 Donna Marie Timney
If kindness isn't your strong suit, then you need to change clothes.
2327 Jinvirle
I live in such a way that those who know me but do not know God will come to know God because they know me.
3030 Gary Hopkins
Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.
3066 Wayne Gerard Trotman
Beware pride; it would have us seek revenge from those most deserving of our pity.
2453 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Quiet moments bring you closer to God. It's your silent time within your own private sanctuary. People have so many things to talk about, worry about, think about, without giving themselves peace within. Quiet moments give you access to areas of your brain which allows you to function proficiently.
1213 Dalai Lama XIV
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
4814 Dalai Lama XIV
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
2215 Bronnie Ware
There is a fine line between compassion and a victim mentality. Compassion though is a healing force and comes from a place of kindness towards yourself. Playing the victim is a toxic waste of time that not only repels other people, but also robs the victim of ever knowing true happiness.
1767 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
People will always notice something about you. It might be the way you walk or the way you talk, or just simply your personality. Live each day in the way you want to be remembered. Live in such a way that people will be inspired by those unique qualities that you have and strive to live better lives for themselves.
4388 Amit Ray
Compassion stands on the pillars of trust, love, awareness and detachment.
4399 Amit Ray
Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.
4569 Amit Ray
Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.
1584 Matthieu Ricard
Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?
4914 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Everything that looks good may not be good for you. In life, we all take chances. You must carefully examine the pros and cons. People often times have certain hidden agendas. And, you might not realize until you're in too deep.
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