Compassion Quotes - Page 25

Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.

Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.

Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

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

Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.

When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion.

When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

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

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

When we start helping the weak and the poor to rise everyone will begin to change. Those who have power and riches will start to become more humble, and those who are rising up will leave behind their need to be victims, their need to be angry or depressed....This is the spirituality of life, that helps people to rise up and take their place. It is not a spirituality of death. Jesus wants those who have been crushed to rise up and those who have power to discover that there is another road, a road of sharing and compassion.

Before my marriage, I didn’t think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have a natural propensity to feel compassion for people and their problems.

The life of Christ was a life charged with a divine message of the love of God, and He longed intensely to impart this love to others in rich measure. Compassion beamed from His countenance, and His conduct was characterized by grace, humility, truth, and love. Every member of His church militant must manifest the same qualities, if he would join the church triumphant.

Yoga stimulates different nerves in your body, especially the Vagus nerve that carries information from the brain to most of the body's major organs, slows everything down and allows self-regulation. It's the nerve that is associated with the parasympathetic system and emotions like love, joy and compassion.

Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.