Quotes About Compassion

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

Nothing is going to make you happier in your life than giving

For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody.

I don't think you have to go out and become Secretary of State or be Bono but I think it's to let people know that whatever they do in their life that that's good.

Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

I think back and I really feel for what he (Roger Maris) went through, for all the negative stuff that was going on in his life. I wish it didn't happen.

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.

You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was a cause. Then she might stop nitpicking everyone else.

What we do to many factory farm animals is dishonorable in the same way that carelessly wounding an animal while hunting is dishonorable.