Passion Quotes - Page 204

Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.

I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.

Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.

It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction. If one enemy is killed, two more will appear. It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all.

Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.

We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.

To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal.

Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet.

Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic.

The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

Criminals, people who commit crimes, usually society rejects these people. They are also part of our society. Give them some form of punishment to say they were wrong, but show them they are part of society and can change. Show them compassion.

Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy.

Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.