Compassion Quotes - Page 33

I don't think we find compassion. I think we become the space that compassion wants to live in.

Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.

Brothers and sisters, if only we had more compassion for those who are different from us, it would lighten many of the problems and sorrows in the world today. It would certainly make our families and the Church a more hallowed and heavenly place.

The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

if we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine.

Can you be compassionate even to those who have no compassion? If so, there is no finer karma that you can create.

Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.

Healing invokes the power of compassion, both for yourself and for others... At this point, the healed may become a healer.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

If you eat chicken, maybe you're on one level. If you wear a mink coat, maybe you're on another level. But if you wear cosmetics, cosmetics that are tested on animals, then you're just unconscious. Really, my message is simple. It's a message of compassion. In this world that is spinning madly out of control, we have to realize that we're all related. We have to try to live harmoniously.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.