Compassion Quotes - Page 48

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

It’s not just about being against cruelty. It’s about being for compassion.

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.

When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.

People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.

Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.

The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.

Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

I believe in being compassionate.

Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only teacher; being just this moment, compassion's way.

Love brings you face to face with your self. It's impossible to love another if you cannot love yourself.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

It was the joy of your life to know Clark Gable. He was everything good you could think of. He had delicious humor, he had great compassion, he was always a fine old teddy bear. In no way was he conscious of his good looks, as were most other men in pictures at that time. Clark was very unactorly.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.