Compassion Quotes - Page 27

God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

I believe in sympathy, compassion and forgiveness.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

In today's world, people experience two types of poverty: the poverty caused by lack of food, clothing and shelter, and the poverty caused by lack of love and compassion. Of these two, the second type needs to be considered first because if we have love and compassion in our hearts, then we will wholeheartedly serve those who suffer from lack of food, clothing and shelter.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.

Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.

It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.

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

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

Compassion is for the very strong. Compassion does not come to the weak. People who are unkind, bullies, use rude language, are not strong people. They are very weak people.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage. Sympathy and compassion should be but natural to the human heart.

Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.

When you expand your awareness, your energy flows freely. You're more flexible, balanced, and creative. You view yourself and the world with more compassion and understanding. You have more energy and are open to new possibilities.