Compassion Quotes
Quotes tagged as "compassion"
Showing 211-240 of 4,162

“Accomplishments don鈥檛 erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.”
―
―

“Humans 鈥 who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals 鈥 have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them 鈥 without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.”
―
―

“Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.”
―
―

“God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone

“How would your life be different if鈥ou pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day鈥ou let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions.”
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“I don't want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined by what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I've touched.”
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks around you suffer and, no matter what happens to you, no matter how lucky or unlucky you are, they keep suffering. And if you can do something about that, then you do it, and you do it without whining or waving your own fuckin' cross for the world to see. You do it because it's the right thing to do.”
― Dark Hollow
― Dark Hollow

“When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.”
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.”
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.”
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto”
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren't asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured or wounded us. We are actually pleading for our very natures to be changed, for our character and disposition to become more and more like the Savior's, so that we literally feel as He would feel and thus do what He would do.”
― If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths
― If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths

“Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on”
― The Iliad
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on”
― The Iliad

“Let them not cold-call our attention, besiege our feelings, and disturb our dreams, those dealers in phony compassion selling wishful thinking through merchandising sentimental poppycock. ("Like a frozen image")”
―
―

“Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.”
― The Way of The Cross
― The Way of The Cross

“In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.”
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.”
― On Photography
― On Photography

“[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching.
What is indiscriminate compassion? 'Take a look at a rose. Is is possible for the rose to say, "I'll offer my fragrance to good people and withhold it from bad people"? Or can you imagine a lamp that withholds its rays from a wicked person who seeks to walk in its light? It could do that only be ceasing to be a lamp. And observe how helplessly and indiscriminately a tree gives its shade to everyone, good and bad, young and old, high and low; to animals and humans and every living creature -- even to the one who seeks to cut it down. This is the first quality of compassion -- its indiscriminate character.' (Anthony DeMello, The Way to Love)...
What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
What is indiscriminate compassion? 'Take a look at a rose. Is is possible for the rose to say, "I'll offer my fragrance to good people and withhold it from bad people"? Or can you imagine a lamp that withholds its rays from a wicked person who seeks to walk in its light? It could do that only be ceasing to be a lamp. And observe how helplessly and indiscriminately a tree gives its shade to everyone, good and bad, young and old, high and low; to animals and humans and every living creature -- even to the one who seeks to cut it down. This is the first quality of compassion -- its indiscriminate character.' (Anthony DeMello, The Way to Love)...
What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet”
― Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
― Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

“Bahujanahit膩ya bahujanasukh膩ya lok膩nukamp膩ya:
For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.”
―
For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.”
―

“At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

“Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.”
― Les Mis茅rables
― Les Mis茅rables

“When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.”
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.”
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour.
A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That鈥檚 all I can say.”
― 骋补濒谩辫补驳辞蝉
A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That鈥檚 all I can say.”
― 骋补濒谩辫补驳辞蝉

“Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.”
―
―

“The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.”
―
―
All Quotes
|
My Quotes
|
Add A Quote
Browse By Tag
- Love Quotes 99k
- Life Quotes 78k
- Inspirational Quotes 74.5k
- Humor Quotes 43.5k
- Philosophy Quotes 30.5k
- Inspirational Quotes Quotes 28k
- God Quotes 26.5k
- Truth Quotes 24k
- Wisdom Quotes 24k
- Romance Quotes 23.5k
- Poetry Quotes 22.5k
- Life Lessons Quotes 21.5k
- Death Quotes 20k
- Quotes Quotes 19.5k
- Happiness Quotes 19k
- Hope Quotes 18k
- Faith Quotes 18k
- Inspiration Quotes 17k
- Spirituality Quotes 15.5k
- Religion Quotes 15k
- Motivational Quotes 15k
- Relationships Quotes 15k
- Life Quotes Quotes 14.5k
- Writing Quotes 14.5k
- Love Quotes Quotes 14.5k
- Success Quotes 13.5k
- Motivation Quotes 13k
- Time Quotes 12.5k
- Science Quotes 12k
- Motivational Quotes Quotes 11.5k