Quotes About Compassion

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Come, whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. This is not a caravan of despair. It doesn't matter if you've broken your vow a thousand times, still and yet again come!

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me? Kagome: I guess so. Miroku: In that case, I have a favor to ask of you: please bear my child.

If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

remember to love yourself, because if you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else? Can I get an amen in here?

I have days when I think to myself, "You know, I'm gonna give everyone a break today." You should try it sometime. Have a "Give Bitches a Break" day.

If you cant love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else?

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?

Ultimately, it's about the love you give and the love you allow yourself to receive. Everything else fades away.

I found in them the qualities I looked for in professional writers and artists of all kinds, a total dedication to their work, not necessarily obvious but discernible all the same, compassion, intelligence rather than intellect, and that peculiar attitude to the world in general, half of mockery, half of deep concern...

My mum and dad taught me not to laugh at people who aren't laughing," she explained. "Besides, I think in life, the joke usually turns out to be on us.

And that, to me, embraces the very soul of the most important commandment you'll find anywhere in your Principles of Successful Termination : 'Do in others as you would have others do you in.

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

She was always ready with her smile, and would willingly have lent it to anyone who was feeling unhappy.

A Quiet Mind Lord, give me a quiet mind, That I might listen; A gentle tone of voice, That I might comfort others; A sound and healthy body, That I might share In the joy of walking And leaping and running; And a good sense of direction So I might know just where I'm going!

On the open road we are all brothers.

Well, we are equals, in our fear as in our loneliness.

We Must Love Someone We Must Love Someone If we are to justify Our presence on this earth. We must keep loving all our days, Someone, anyone, anywhere Outside our selves; For even the sarus crane Will grieve over its lost companion, And the seal its mate. Somewhere in life There must be someone To take your hand And share the torrid day. Without the touch of love There is no life, and we must fade away.

Lord, give me a quiet mind, That I might listen; A gentle tone of voice, That I might comfort others; A sound and healthy body, That I might share In the joy of walking And leaping and running; And a good sense of direction So I might know just where I'm going!