Quotes About Compassion

Kannon, with her thousand arms and eleven heads, who could hear the voices of things crying out. I said I could totally relate to that, and when she told us that Kannon was the Buddhist saint of compassion

Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, made a deep vow to free all beings and help us wake up to our true and luminous nature.

Blessed Stars, please make this world into a place where we will never again be forced to kill an enemy whom we cannot hate. Were such a thing to come about, I would not complain even if my body were torn to pieces again and again.

But what a sweet story it is! And in the end, to us, that's what really matters. That's what books are for, after all, to tell your stories, to hold them and keep them safe between our covers for as long as we're able. We do our best to bring you pleasure and sustain your belief in the gravity of being human. We care about your feelings and believe in you completely.

He was like the Crow Captain. He didn't want to support a war that he hated, and he didn't want to cause any more suffering, even for his so-called enemy.

I thought I understood everything about cruelty, but it turns out, I didn't understand anything at all.

I don't know any prayers, so I just make them go round and round and say blessings in my head for all the things and people I love, and when I run out of things I love, I move on to the things I don't hate too much, and sometimes I even discover that I can love the things I think I hate.

what's the point in beating yourself up when other people will do it for you?

When I wash my feet May all sentient beings Attain the power of supernatural feet With no hindrance to their practice.   Of

Listen! 'To Benny, who hears the cries of the world.' Isn't that beautiful? And it's so true, don't you think?

Then she said, with piteous defiance, If I could love her, the Good Lord could, and he won't be too hard on an old lady who didn't have an easy life.

I'd rather be a fool than hard-hearted.

Don't hate anyone," she had said. "It's quite useless and harms the hater while it does nothing at all to the hated." So

She told me that real strength is the capacity for kindness to others, and that I should do whatever I could to find that kind of strength. She said she couldn't tell me how to go about doing that, because she never found it herself, but that people who where strong enough to be kind to others could always get by in this world.

People who thought it fun to keep tegu lizards in cases too small for them displayed a mentality exactly like that of his parents. "It's so cute!" they cooed as they fed the thing or gave it water or moved its case into the sunlight or warmed it with lamps. Even under the best conditions, lizards and tortoises never lived as long in captivity as in the wild; these people were slowly but surely killing the pets they found so adorable.

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. —1 John 3:16

A journalist can not be a cynic, can not forget his humanity and that of the people he meets

see on kõige hirmsam kannatus inimlikes asjades, paljut mõista ja mitte mingit võimu omada

Ah yes it took a long time before I learned to think about man as a human being before I discovered his way of thinking before I took this path in this salutary direction and speaking of man or contemplating him I stopped asking such questions as is he white or black an anarchist or monarchist fashionable or outmoded ours or theirs and I began to ask what in him is of human being . . .

Al vivir, el hombre siente que es todas las personas y todas las cosas, así que no puede anhelar nada puesto tiene todo lo que es posibe tener, y al sentirse todo, no puede hacer daño a nadie ni a nada pues nadie hace daño a uno mismo

Ubóstwo to stan niemo?noÅ›ci wypowiedzenia siÄ™. Ludzie ubodzy nie majÄ… gÅ'osu, nie sÄ… nigdzie szanowani, nie sÄ… tolerowani. KtoÅ› musi mówi? w ich imieniu. To jest przyczyna, dla której o nich piszÄ™.

Si tratas de curar la maldad con maldad, sumarás más dolor a tu destino.

Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.