Compassion Quotes - Page 41

If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.

The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.

Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.

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.

The more aggressive our ideologies become, the more aggressive our discourse whether it's in the United States, from Washington D.C., or whether it's from Tehran, or from some underground Al-Qaeda cell. The more aggressive that discourse is, the more people of moderate persuasion have to organize and speak a voice of compassion. That means to feel with the other.

Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment. It dethrones the ego from the center of our lives and puts others there, breaking down the carapace of the selfishness that holds us back from an experience of the sacred. And it gives us ecstasy, broadening our perspectives and giving us a larger, enhanced vision.

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

Do not despise any man, however poor he may be; but behave with full respect and kindness to every well-intentioned man, especially to the poor, as to our members worthy of compassion - or, rather, to members of Christ - otherwise you will cruelly wound your soul.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.

We must be the compassion we wish to see in others!

The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon with every day because I know that if I ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other; and to that extent, I can accept myself.

Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.

Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures.

In a world where people are equal, I feel it's important to have strong male characters, counterparts. Equality is important. It's about compatibility and compassion. And it's amazing.

Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.

Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion.

Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.

Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

I am going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone, but my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.