Compassion Quotes

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.

The church must always show compassion, always.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.

Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney. They seemed to have no compassion, and they were always alone.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

People need to have compassion for others.

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.

Even if you were aware of children and felt compassion, when you have your own, it multiplies. It breaks your heart to know that there are so many children in the world suffering so much.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

I would say I have compassion.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwashed and such a disconnect with what's actually happening. They don't realize what if it was their kids that were being put into the games? They just don't have the mindset to have that kind of compassion for people.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.