Quotes About Compassion

We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love

God doesn't intend for you to handle all the pain and stress in your life by yourself. We were wired for each other. We need each other.

Why are we putting people who are already in a vulnerable position through this dreadful, appalling stress?

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."

It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

Giving, in the form of volunteer work: enhances your immune system, lowers cholesterol levels, strengthens your heart, decreases the incidence of chest pains, and generally reduces stress.

Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private domain where it can do [less] harm.

If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness - changing your thoughts and energy around that person - can lower stress.

When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, [...] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else's.

Letting yourself off the hook takes the stress away.

Sometimes a pad on the back or just a simple word of comfort is all that it takes to bring someone under heavy stress back to balance.

Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.