Quotes About Compassion

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.

When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.

It must be made possible for the one to live vicariously the life of the many from the beginning.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto be able to understand them.

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.

A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.

I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.

The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.