Quotes About Compassion

I think that any loving act, even if it's only momentary, had a limitless power for good

He said, 'Don't mind what happened to me. Don't be angry. I'm a frail creature with certain crude reflexes.

Surely it's better to be human and live with grief, than outgrow your humanity and learn to raise the dead too late to raise your own.

The bird that is shot is a parent," he observed in an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. "We take advantage of its most sacred instincts to waylay it, and in depriving the parent of life, we doom the helpless offspring to the most miserable of deaths, that by hunger. If this is not cruelty, what is?

According to an English seaman named Aaron Thomas, who sailed to Newfoundland on the HMS Boston: If you come for their Feathers you do not give yourself the trouble of killing them, but lay hold of one and pluck the best of the Feathers. You then turn the poor Penguin adrift, with his skin half naked and torn off, to perish at his leisure.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you...

The heart was a mansion with infinite rooms inside. -The Widowed Bride by Elizabeth Lane

Face your embarrassment at being human, and you'll uncover a deep well of passion and compassion. It's a great power, your Open Secret. When your heart is undefended, you make it safe for whomever you meet to put down his burden of hiding, and then you both can walk through the open door.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing," he writes, "there is a field. I'll meet you there.

I accept now that the point of life is not to reach perfection but to befriend the fact that human beings are works in progress.

Let the young rain of tears come, Let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think. —ROLF JACOBSEN

For the warrior," says Trungpa, "the experience of sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.

fearlessness is the product of tenderness.

where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves.

He went on to tell me that before the workshop he hadn't cried for years, even when his father died, even when his wife told him she was leaving. "I am so glad to finally feel something." He sighed, touching his heart. "Even if I have to cry every day for a couple of years, it's better than having a frozen heart." Ever

A heart made crooked through loss and change is a heart that can love the world and its less than perfect people.

grief is good—that it is a sign of how well we have loved. And

In the end, what will matter is how much we loved—our children, our mates, our families, our friends, everyone we knew, everyone who traveled with us during our brief visit to this unbearably lovely place. What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

Discovering fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart. I

the same secret we will all know when death is just a breath away: In the end, what will matter is how much we loved—our children, our mates, our families, our friends, everyone we knew, everyone who traveled with us during our brief visit to this unbearably lovely place. What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

He said that in order to save the world you must serve the people in your life. "You gradually struggle less and less for an idea," Merton wrote, "and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.