Compassion Quotes - Page 40

There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group.

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

I sometimes feel tremendous compassion and helplessness.

I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.

If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

People ask me why I work so hard and why I have this compassion to reach the top and be great. I respond by telling them, "I work insanely hard because people said I couldn't do it." When someone tells me I can't do something, or that I'll never achieve my goals and visions, I am determined to prove them wrong.

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.

May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul.

The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote to anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion. That is why the practice of compassion is a very wonderful practice.

To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

What I want in my life is compassion a flow between myself and others based on mutual giving from the heart.

When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.

I believe that animals are on the planet so that we can know love and compassion.

Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.