Quotation Explorer - 'Compassion'

Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care. - Debasish Mridha
War never can bring peace; only understanding, love, kindness and compassion can do that. - Debasish Mridha
Love, gratitude, compassion, and kindness are the sources of all enduring, pure happiness. - Debasish Mridha
Man in his usual perversity turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would feign direct the Almighty as to what He ought to do, giving the onlooker the impression that if God had half the compassion that those who pray (?) have, all would quickly be right - Arthur W. Pink
Compassion for others is a mark of wisdom. - Tadahiko Nagao
Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion! - Mehmet Murat ildan
When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control, we practice listening (without judging), compassion, and love. - Sheila Burke
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. - Alan W. Watts
Live by choice, not by accident. Lead with passion and compassion. Love with all your heart and win like a champion! Yes, Winning Matters! - Farshad Asl
Why is there such madness in our world? Why can’t we stop it? Why do we hate others? Tolerance, harmony, compassion, and kindness are the beauty of life. - Debasish Mridha
Gratitude is the combination of appreciate, love, kindness, and compassion in a beautiful heart. - Debasish Mridha
Be kind and have compassion for others, anyone his situation can change in a minute - Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
To be a good pastor one must have the wisdom of a Solomon, the intuition of a Newton, the patience of Job, the thinking faculties of an Einstein, and a compassion likened unto the Son of God. - Reverend Sidney E. Slaton, Cumberland Presbyterian
A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
True compassion comes by living in the shoes of another, providing a perspective closer to that of God. - Jason Micheal Ratliff
A body without compassion is like the rose without the scent. - Ansul Noor
It's compassion that makes gods of us. - Dorothy Gilman
To live a wonderful life, be curious and impregnate your thoughts with kindness, compassion, and pure love. - Debasish Mridha
The entire Universe will conspire to satiate our desire of what we put out there... as long as that desire was created in the womb of compassion - Angie karan
Have compassion for your past. By showing love to the present. Your past was just the portal to now. - Matthew Donnelly
With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado
You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and for those around you. - Lupita Nyong'o
National Health Insurance: The compassion of the IRS The efficiency of the Postal Service All at Pentagon prices!!!!
Embrace compassion without exception. - Janice Anderson
Showing your compassion to another human takes less energy than hating him. - Ben Midland
The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion! - Widad Akreyi
Compassion Is The Key - Pamela Stadnyk
If the Internal enemy of hatred is not tamed, when one tries to tame external enemies, they increase. Therefore, it is a practice of the wise to tame themselves by means of the forces of love and compassion. - Bodhisattva Tokmay Sangpo
Buddhism is more a philosophy for living rather than a religion or dogma - it's about being awake, free from illusions and fear, so that compassion and loving kindness permeates all of our relationships. - Charlotte Kasl
To please God, live a godly life and nurture kindness, compassion, justice, and humility. - Jim George
In the shimmering ignorance of illiteracy of compassion and faith the stoic desire of loving without temporal gains rules the hearts and minds in deeds and care - meenakshi ahlawat
Compassion is essential, but it’s not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them. - Vironika Tugaleva
There's no such thing as having something to fall back on in life, there's passion, talent, skills, compassion and purpose. Choice is a prerequisite - Goitsemang Sandra Mvula
Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why. - Shannon L. Alder
When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado
When your eyes beholds mine, I am mesmerized only to be your wife in bad times more than the best ones. Because whatever one say Marriage is all about Compassion - Tanya Sehgal
Live a good life. More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate. - Roy Bennett
People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win. - Stewart Stafford
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension. - Václav Havel
I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory. - Augusten Burroughs
Passion for compassion will give you happiness. - Debasish Mridha
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. - John Berger
If you see a person who is suffering from misery and sadness, wash it away with your compassion and kindness. - Debasish Mridha
Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species. - Doug Dillon
The practice of love and compassion are the most important treatment for the sickness of hatred and revival of peace in the world. - Debasish Mridha
Compassion is a fundamental principle of meditation. Meditation is not a narcissistic, self-interested path. It provides the foundation for love, integrity, compassion, respect and sensitivity (Feldman, 1998, p.2). - Christina Feldman
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. - Dalai Lama XIV
Close your eyes, forget everything that hurts you and dream love, kindness and compassion. - M.F. Moonzajer
With the glorious flames of compassion in your heart, embrace the goodness from all religions. - Abhijit Naskar
All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Be a vessel of love and fill up with compassion and kindness. Then give it away with unconditional love. - Debasish Mridha
Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion. - Martin Scorsese
All we have is compassion and stories. - Barry López
We are nothing without compassion for others and for all other beings! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Compassion is the highest form of love. Kindness is the best way to express love. - Debasish Mridha
The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself to no end. - Noam Shpancer
When you serve the humanity with compassion and kindness,You express your spontaneous love and inner greatness. - Debasish Mridha
Compassion means knowing that I may never find that person who understands my pain but through my struggle I can become one who understands. - Rachel Hamilton
It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others. - Dillon Burroughs
Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn't consist of any colours or shades that you know. Trying to describe that colour would be as difficult as trying to belive that there is enough love & compassion in the world so every human can feel happiness. - Egor Kraft
We all have a grain of god in us. We do get opportunities to realize it, when moments in life demand selfless deeds of compassion from us. But we often squander them. - Ashok Kallarakkal
The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis. - Thurgood Marshall
Compassion is happiness. - Sixeye
All beings seek for happiness; so let your compassion extend itself to all. - Mahavamsa
Compassion‬ is medicine to a wounded heart. When we show compassion to those who are suffering we preach Jesus in another way. - Paul Gitwaza
It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble. - Wayne Gerard Trotman
Compassion is a sign of inner peace. Kindness is a sign of inner strength. Be kind and be compassionate. - Debasish Mridha
Compassion brings us closer to each other. - Debasish Mridha
Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization. - Yehudi Menuhin
From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him. - G.I. Gurdjieff
The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival. - Dalai Lama XIV
Time’s relativity is considered and abandoned, for the more revelatory experiences of starlightin strands, and pearly floors that span as far as absolute compassion... - Kristen Henderson
I came here to show you the way to happiness is not through success but through love, compassion, and kindness. - Debasish Mridha
Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world. - Gautama Buddha
Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness. - Dalai Lama XIV
Peace is not the absence of violence or war; it is the presence of kindness, compassion, love, and care. - Debasish Mridha
Great compassion is the root of altruistic action, the object of amazement to the world;there is no greater source of help and happiness. - Dalai Lama XIV
One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment. - Mother Teresa
Open your heartlike a beautiful flower,one petal at a time,love, compassion and kindness,to spread the beautyall around you and feel the joy. - Debasish Mridha
Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain’t a man surely! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom - Jalaluddin Rumi
All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness. - Walter Brueggemann
Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that’s better than the one you live in. - Ryan Henry Ward Artist
The first principle of life is love. The second principle is kindness. The third principle is compassion. The fourth principle is trust. The firth principle is integrity. - Debasish Mridha
To forgive is an act of compassion... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it. - Joss Whedon
Truth is on the side of compassion. - Christina Hoff Sommers
Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity. - Auliq Ice
Peace is inner joy, tranquility, nonjudgmental love and universal compassion. - Debasish Mridha
Perhaps above everything compassion is the most important thing to embrace and emanate in life. It will enhance your life - and it's the one thing that will elevate and heal mankind - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. - Frederick Buechner
By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred. - Radhe Maa
Only love and compassion can bring true and lasting transformation - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it. - Jane Hirshfield
Compassion is not something you have; it is something you share. - Shannon L. Alder
Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in this universe! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Sing a song of love with all of your passion and compassion. Let it reveal your inner beauty. - Debasish Mridha
During our darkest moments on the edges of time we mostly deny compassion and hope for those who will shape our shadows into light! - Vasilios Karpos
Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide. - Amit Ray
Let your life be a vivacious poetry of love, compassion, kindness, and beauty. - Debasish Mridha
You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions. - Dalai Lama XIV
To be in peace, grow calmness and compassion in your heart. - Debasish Mridha
Today's society is wanting in such a way that Honor, Integrity, Trust, Compassion, Empathy are left for the homeless and their pets. - Solange nicole
Nowhere in the bible did it say, Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust. If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day. - Shannon L. Alder
And so it was said "tell me your lies and I will help you keep them"And by wisdom attained it was realized that this was not the way. And so it was said "tell me your lies and I will help you heal them in truth without repercussion or judgement; in understanding, compassion and forgiveness. - L.J Vanier
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. - William Faulkner
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.
Greatness is not found in power, it is not found in money, it is not found in the ability to conquer. Greatness is found in humility, in compassion, and in the ability to think outside oneself. - Molly Anne Marie
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. - Norman Cousins
If every one of us spreads the message of love, compassion, kindness and forgiveness, peace will be there. - Debasish Mridha
O Holy Spirit, give me a simple heart which will not retire within itself to savor its own sorrows, a heart magnanimous in giving itself, easily moved to compassion, a faithful, generous heart, which does not forget any favor received nor hold resentment for any injuries done to it. - Leonce de Grandmaison
Compassion is the way you live your life every day. - Jeffrey A. White
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. - Francis of Assisi
Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again. - Laurence Overmire
At the bottom of the human well, there should always be a candle of compassion. - A.J. Garces
Compassion does not have to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness does not imply friendship. Understanding why someone has inflicted pain on us is how we set ourselves free of the past, not how we excuse someone's behaviour so they can continue to abuse us. - Vironika Tugaleva
The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression. - Storm Constantine
I love brooding in a bucolic valley about your endless compassion. - Debasish Mridha
We can do more for the peace just by changing our thoughts. Be an example of compassion and kindness like Mother Teresa. We all can do that without harming anyone. - Debasish Mridha
I am naïve and I have fucked up but I tell you something else. I believe in change. I don't mind getting my hands dirty because my hands are dirty already. I don't mind giving my life to this because I'm only alive because of the compassion and love of others. - Russell Brand
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
Wherever you are, be there with love. Be there with compassion, kindness, and gratitude. Smile and show you care. - Debasish Mridha
...and awakening, at that moment, to the thrilling prospect of complete surrender, not just of one’s lips but of one’s entire body to a lover’s mercy, we recognized that the gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region. - Orhan Pamuk
Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity. - Debasish Mridha
I have three powers to win the world: my omnipotent love, my omnipresent kindness, and my omniscient compassion. - Debasish Mridha
Hate is a parasite that will eat all compassion. - Grandaddy BAD
Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion. - Debasish Mridha
Earl: Augh! They're trying to take the wolf off the endangered list .Mooch: I know. But did you hear what they're putting back on the endangered list? Earl: What?Mooch: Empathy and compassion. - Patrick McDonnell
Anybody Can Hate. Hate is Easy...Living Side by Side with Compassion, Tolerance and Respect Takes Real Courage. - Jeffrey A. White
Live with compassion, work with confidence, and create opportunities for others to conquer the world. - Farshad Asl
Less judgement more compassion. - Nikki Rowe
Real compassion only exists in silence - Petra Hermans
World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. - Dalai Lama XIV
We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion. - Bryant McGill
Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage. - Stefan Molyneux
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion - Simone de Beauvoir
surround yourself with people who allow you to be yourself, it does not mean be around others who do not have a sense of right or wrong, who lack respect, love and compassion for others. - Tasha Hoggatt
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees. - Jane Goodall
Compassion is the basis of morality. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Great compassion makes a peaceful heart. A peaceful heart makes a peaceful person. A peaceful person makes a peaceful family. A peaceful family makes a peaceful community. A peaceful community makes a peaceful nation. A peaceful nation makes a peaceful world. - Maha Ghosananda
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t. - Dean Cavanagh
Compassion is the radicalism of our time. - Dalai Lama XIV
Take over the school, take over the town, take over the worlds. It will be a world of compassion, of neighbor loving neighbor, of student loving student or at least treating one another with respect. No judgments. No name-calling. No more, no more, no more. - Jeniffer Niven
You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get hurt. - Donna Lynn Hope
No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding.
Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship. - Germany Kent
I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. - Robert M. Sapolsky
Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion. - Mollie Marti
hold value; not price, carry moral; not pride. be of compassion; not selfishness,humble in your approach to live and loving with your gift to share. - Nikki Rowe
Take over the school, take over the town, take over the world. It will be a world of compassion, of neighbor loving neighbor, of student loving student or at least treating one another with respect. No judgments. No name-calling. No more, no more, no more. - Jeniffer Niven
Let us think about our attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to respond to what is happening around us - Kishore Bansal
Love, compassion, and patience bring peace. - Debasish Mridha
it is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering - Radhe Maa
True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly. - Dillon Burroughs
Kindness is the ultimate essence of life; compassion is the ultimate evidence of love. - Debasish Mridha
What is life if not laughter and love, caring and compassion, fresh bread and crisp radishes? - James Kavanaugh
Trauma ruptures and hollows. Compassion mends and fills; love heals. - Na'ama Yehuda
When you show compassion instead of being judgemental. You will not undergo your own judgement, but you will receive your own love - Guus Gelsing
To be free, get an education. To be happy, spread compassion. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Peace is not only the absence of violence, but the presence of love, kindness, compassion and harmony. - Debasish Mridha
I am that woman...A woman with compassion and empathyAn alluring woman whose beauty emanates from the insideA woman of courage and perseveranceA woman gifted with many talentsA woman who has so much to give and know where she is goingA woman who is everything but lost without you. - Julie Cox
When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well. - Shannon L. Alder
Love, kindness, compassion, and forgiveness are the secrets of all peace and happiness. - Debasish Mridha
I am a farmer of kindness and compassion; I plant the seeds of love in my garden. - Debasish Mridha
Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you've been assigned. - Mike Murdock
Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from compassion with suffering, from understanding the other person. - Joseph Campbell
Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion! - Mehmet Murat ildan
With all the strength; Love encompasses compassion, determination, tolerance, endurance, support, faith and acceptance of whom you love. - Auliq Ice
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. - Malcolm X
All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding - Rasheed Ogunlaru
God wants to lead you to places you cannot get to without Him, and He does that by the power of His Spirit. He can bring you into the realm of the miraculous—not as a show, but as a demonstration of His love and compassion for the lost, hurting, or needy. Who among us doesn’t want or need that? - Stormie Omartian
Compassion and kindness it turned out, was good for your health. - James R Doty
We are all unique, but we are also a part of the common body of humanity. With harmony, love, kindness, and compassion we can live together in joy and happiness. - Debasish Mridha
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - Dalai Lama XIV
Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion. - Jim George
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy. - Dean Koontz
When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective. - Ariana Carruth
Love is a strong seed, planted in my soul of kindness to grow the plants compassion and flowers of happiness. - Debasish Mridha
If you want to feel the truest spirit of Christmas, go out and find someone sadder than you, lonelier than you, poorer than you and give what you can in a smile, in time, in compassion. The best Christmases always require the gift of self. - Toni Sorenson
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. - Desmond Tutu
I can still choose to be a person who is kind and full of love, a person who extends compassion to her fellow humans and even if I feel like our country is regressing a little, even if I'm embarrassed of our leader I still have control over the kind of person I am. - Ashley Mardell
True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty. - Israelmore Ayivor
People think a relationship is give & take, but i see it as give & give, & there is no greater gift than the love & compassion within your heart. - Mark Hewer
As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war. - Eugene B. Sledge
I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up. - Shania Twain
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man. - Confucius
Earth should suspect a man who has no tears of compassion and eject into the outer space until he learns humility. Outer space and death might be of the same origin, where one chances upon egolessness just before lifelessness. Earth only asks for egolessness. - Adam Kovacevic
Night becomes day only when the sun appears; dark man becomes good man only when the compassion appears! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. - Albert Schweitzer
Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels. - Tony Samara
Morality without kindness and compassion is very dangerous. - Debasish Mridha
Love and accept everyone for who they are, for where they are in life. That is compassion. - Kristi Bowman
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts. - Dalai Lama XIV
When we choose to operate on the frequency of compassion and kindness, we create, and reinforce our own realities, as filled with compassion and kindness. - Raphael Zernoff
Why do we teach our children to hate others when there are so many options to love? Why do we teach hate when kindness, compassion, tolerance, and harmony add such beauty to life? - Debasish Mridha
Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless. - Shannon L. Alder
Every thought, word, and action plants seeds in the garden of your life. Are you planting seeds of love, compassion, peace, or those of anger, resentment and dissatisfaction? Choose wisely and tend your garden well. - John Bruna
Spread kindness, caring, and compassion and create your own paradise. Infuse it with joy and you’ve created heaven on earth. - Amy Leigh Mercree
Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human. - Leah C. Fowler
Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others. - Joseph B. Wirthlin
If your questioning whether something will work or not. Remember that life is an experiment. Don't over analyze just act with heart and passion and move forward in compassion. - Matthew Donnelly
Appearances, beauty, value and life have their unique mysteries and essence. I prefer that essence to be breathing with humility, honesty, compassion, respect and a timeless love. - Angelica Hopes
To talk about peace is pleasant and kind. To help others to live in peace is an expression of compassion and love. - Debasish Mridha
Try to show grace, mercy and compassion, for one day you may need them. - Wayne Gerard Trotman
Happiness is there when you express kindness, compassion, and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy. - Debasish Mridha
Love has many names including compassion, caring, concern,friendship, kindness,goodwill, altruism and benevolence. - Independent Zen
Compassion is a verb...It is the way you live your life every day. - Jeffrey A. White
When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by imagination, the variety and richness of life turn into flat abstractions; people become objects to be manipulated -- with the social consequences we know all too well. - Lloyd Alexander
Be the compassionate observer. No labels, just unconditional compassion. Fun times pass, tough times pass. Compassion will be eternal. - Matthew Donnelly
Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love. - Debasish Mridha
Money and material things may well sustain you physically. But it is only living life from/with love & compassion - and the hearts and lives that you touch - that will truly nourish you emotionally and in spirit. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
It's not enough that you're doing your job. You must also do it with integrity and compassion. Failure to do so is failure to do your job right. - Jorge P. Guerrero
I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...what matters most is that we take each moment in stride. Compassion, love, forgiveness and empathy will always win the human race. - Jason Versey
The deletion of logic is through....LoveAcceptanceForgiveness Compassion Understanding Faith in the unknownPresent Moment Living Conscious Breathing - Matthew Donnelly
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - Albert Schweitzer
Contemplating this suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering. - Dalai Lama XIV
Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you. - Radhe Maa
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty. - Albert Einstein
To err is human, but to err on the side of compassion is humane. - Karl Schmidtt
Let happiness bloomIn the freshness of your mind,In the gentle wind of your thoughts.On the ground of kindness and compassion. - Debasish Mridha
People fall short. Your finger-pointing hurts you more than it does them. Less judgement. More compassion - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
The most valuable currency in life is compassion. - Auliq-Ice
You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage. - Debasish Mridha
They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and soften the hardened. - Aisha Mirza
In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story. - Shannon L. Alder
When bad things happen or you don't get your own way, if you can open your heart to compassion instead of shunting it down in anger, you're going to create more light. - Barrie Dolnick
Higher states of consciousness correlate strongly with attributes like compassion, forgiveness, generosity and kindness. The more one is self-aware and other-aware, and the greater one's connection with the spiritual, the more likely one will be a force for good in our world. - Philip Chard
Be a person who radiates love, compassion, kindness, tranquility, serenity, peace and joy to burn and purify everything around you. - Debasish Mridha
Love, kindness, compassion and forgiveness are divine. - Debasish Mridha
Happiness is an inner perception. It comes from simplicity, kindness, love, and compassion. - Debasish Mridha
Ultimately, you are defined by your kindness, compassion, passion, and choice. - Debasish Mridha
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness. - Anthony de Mello
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. - Albert Schweitzer
The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals. - Jasper Sole
Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love. - A.D. Posey
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. - Dalai Lama XIV
When we look into the eyes of others with compassion, our personal biases suddenly begin to fade away. Then, we can see others for what they truly are, Human. - Rob Pinell
Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able to generate genuine compassion for them. We must work at this continually. - Dalai Lama XIV
Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.
Forever friends are a treasure chest of understanding and compassion. Cherish them. - Amy Leigh Mercree
There is no greater duty in this world than to serve others with deep compassion and love. - Debasish Mridha
The thought manifests the word;The word manifests the deed;The deed develops into habit;And habit hardens into character;So watch the thought and its ways with care,And let them spring forth from loveBorn out of compassion for all beings.As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become. - Juan Mascaró
If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Love and compassion are the creating and sustaining elements of humanity, without them humanity will be inhumane. - Debasish Mridha
wouldn't a loving gather, I reasoned, have more compassion than to seek revenge on His comparatively feeble children who are temporarily blinded by the illusions of time and space? - Mike Dooley
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. - Shannon L. Alder
To find inner peace, exercise kindness and compassion. - Debasish Mridha
Have compassion and forgive the mistakes of others. If you cannot forgive ignore but never hate them, because hatred will always lead to destruction. - Alok Jagawat
Enlightenment seems paradoxical but all it needs is compassion - Priyanka Deshmukh
Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over,love being the new black,and compassion going viral. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen
No separation of distance; no separation of time; no separation of any kind need lessen compassion. - Zechariah Barrett
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.
Compassion for humanity begins with compassion and respect for all beings. - Jeffrey A. White
Love is an ocean,kindness is a river,and compassion is a stream. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I live by three simple words: compassion, love and gratitude. We need to act on these three words daily. Doing so will irrevocably change your world. - Julian Pencilliah
We want Allah to forgive us, yet we are not willing to forgive others.Desire the same that you wish for your enemy,Pray for those who harmed you with the same passion that you pray for yourself.Be willing to open heaven’s door for your enemy.The greatest compassion lies in forgiveness. - Zarina Bibi
A holiday is for kindness, compassion, love, and holiness; it is not for laziness or craziness. - Debasish Mridha
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage. - Joseph Campbell
The purpose of religion is to enhance love, compassion, kindness, and care.It teaches us forgiveness, humility, tolerance, patience, and to share. - Debasish Mridha
Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion. - Shannon L. Alder
We are unique not by comparison but by compassion (the moral of my book The Cheetah and the Snail) - Shriram
He who feels no compassion will become insane. - Hasidic Saying
cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit.
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. - Leo Buscaglia
He didn’t deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given. - V.S. Carnes
Your selling point is that unique quality like integrity,teachability, honesty, humility, skill, sagacity, love, self-confidence, vision, compassion and kindness which distinguishes you among your contemporaries. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Love is a flower that grows in the garden of mind if we treat it with kindness, compassion, and joy. - Debasish Mridha
Do you prefer to be with people who glow with love and compassion or those who burn with anger fueled by religious doctrine or political ideology? - Jeff Rasley
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time? - Walter Scott
Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong. - Shannon L. Alder
Spread love, joy and compassion because the world needs it, for hatred and pain need no escort; they know how to survive without it. - Radhika Mundra
Compassion is not prevention of all negative certainty, it is a home floating on the sea of fear, that equally brings assistance to those sinking. - James C. Emlund
It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they're what keeps life from being meaningless. - Tim Winton
My touchstone for following a line of wisdom is; ‘living the philosophy should bring freedom to the individual, and love, wisdom and compassion to society, to our relationships’. - Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
No amount of money can fill your heart up with what kindness and compassion can. - Eileen Anglin
There is no rain beyond the clouds; there is no humanity beyond the compassion! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Jesus showed compassion for the hurting and the lost, and so should you. - Jim George
Instead of seeing how much pain I can dish out towards those I disagree with, or who I believe have done me wrong, I seek to follow the golden rule and use my words and behavior to create more of what the world needs love, compassion, and connection. - Aspen Baker
To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52) - Donald Rothberg
Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion.
Rage whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders’ insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion. - Bonnie Myotai Treace
A woman is a symbol of nature; she has the beauty to attract and empower, the passion and compassion to create and nurture, and the power of love to transpire and transform. - Debasish Mridha
I do not have money to invest nor i have studied finance to be an investment banker but i would like to be an investor in the society; by investing my love care and compassion in my children i think there will be a bank of bankable people - meenakshi ahlawat
Compassion brings people together. - Sunday Adelaja
The world is focused on success, which is defined as riches and fame. Define your success as a person of values. Make love, compassion, and kindness your only success and everything else will be available to you. - Raphael Zernoff
The day you STOP expecting people to have the same compassion as you do,love like you & act like you would in a situation...Will be the day that will people stop letting you down. - Stuart J. Scesney
Success is a way of life with the sense of connection, compassion, and expansion of human life. - Debasish Mridha
Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish. - Abhijit Naskar
Never put a single thought of weakness in the flourishing minds of the children. Fill them up with vigour and compassion, for their character will define the future of the entire human species. - Abhijit Naskar
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. - Amit Ray
Compassion is the basis of all morality - Arthur Schopenhauer
Successful leaders leaders lead with passion and compassion. - Farshad Asl
Look back with compassion, look forward with curiosity, but live for the present moment with wonder and joy. - Debasish Mridha
Compassion is the chief law of human existence. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and side benefit the skills you develop will give you greater compassion, insight and range with the people you create on the page or run into off of it. - Jerry Stahl
Patience is not a natural gift of a leader, it is a learned one. The more you broaden your awareness, understanding, and compassion, the better results you will get out of your people. - -Shandel Slaten
We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity. - Bryan Stevenson
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. - Abraham Joshua Heschel
A beautiful life is a life that is content and satisfied with material possessions, and has an abundance of hope, love, laughter, kindness, and compassion. - Debasish Mridha
Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. YOUR devotion to helping others is an expression of YOUR greatness. - Widad Akreyi
Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy. - Israelmore Ayivor
As a physician, we heal by sharing our bestowed power of knowledge, love, and compassion. - Debasish Mridha
Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness - Amit Abraham
Compassion is a verb. - Thich Nhat Hanh
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