Quotes About Compassion

e seres humanos que inventam flautas, escrevem poesia, acreditam eu Deus, conquistam o Planeta e o espaço em seu redor, combatem doenças para atenuar o sofrimento, mas também não hesitam em destruir outros seres humanos para seu ganho pessoal, inventam a internet, descobrem maneiras de a transformar num instrumento de progresso e de catástrofe e, ainda por cima, se interrogam sobre as bactérias, formigas, abelhas - e si próprios.

Se nos negam aqui o pão e o vinho, Avante! É largo, imenso, esse horizonte… Não, não se fecha o Mundo! E além, defronte, E em toda a parte há luz, vida e carinho!

And it seems to me, Miss O'Breen, that to forswear mercy is to forswear humanity. If to destroy evil we take up its very weapons, we shall learn in time that all we have destroyed is the best in ourselves. [Jonadab Evans]

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

If the world is to be improved it must be by the exercise of individual charity.

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?

I lack the Lord's own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.

A tu gde je strah nema ljubavi, jer uvek mrzimo ono ?ega se plašimo.

What we need is not just action that will bring about change but sight that will bring about love.

Suppose somebody showed us a way whereby we would truly love one another, and be at peace, be at love. Can you think of anything more practical than that? But, instead, you have people thinking that big business is more practical, that politics is more practical, that science is more practical. What's the earthly use of putting a man on the moon when we cannot live on the earth?

Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. "You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.

It is a sobering thought that the finest act of love you can perform is not an act of service but an act of contemplation, of seeing.

That is how you bring about change in yourself. Not by condemnation, not by calling yourself names, but by understanding what's going on. Not by calling yourself a dirty old sinner.

How can you love someone whom you do not even see?

Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

To be in the state called love you must be sensitive to the uniqueness and beauty of every single thing and person around you.

love excludes no one at all; it embraces the whole of life; it listens to the symphony as a whole, not to just one or the other of the musical instruments.

El amor sólo puede existir en libertad. El verdadero amante busca el bien de la persona amada, lo cual requiere especialmente la liberación de ésta respecto de aquél.

Now you will realize that this beggar came to your home with an alms for you—the widening of your heart in compassion and the release of your spirit in freedom. Where before you used to be controlled (these persons had the power to create negative emotions in you and you went out of your way to avoid them) now you have the gift of freedom to avoid no one, to go anywhere.