Quotes About Compassion

All men are my children. What I desire for my own children, and I desire their welfare and happiness both in this world and the next, that I desire for all men. You do not understand to what extent I desire this, and if some of you do understand, you do not understand the full extent of my desire.

Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, has caused this Dhamma edict to be written. Here (in my domain) no living beings are to be slaughtered or offered in sacrifice. Formerly, in the kitchen of Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, hundreds of thousands of animals were killed every day to make curry. But now with the writing of this Dhamma edict only three creatures, two peacocks and a deer are killed, and the deer not always. And in time, not even these three creatures will be killed.

Why not, above all, learn to look more generously at each other as well as at ourselves?

After pursuing God's will and purpose of my life here on earth, my biggest goal and top priority as a human being is to be absolutely nothing like anyone who's hurt and or caused me hardship throughout my life thus far. I'd never wish the pain I have felt and endured upon absolutely anybody.. Not even my worst enemy.

Everyone should be nice to everyone. We are all fighting a battle of which most know nothing about.

The Enlightened One said: I am not at variance with the unenlightened mind, the unenlightened mind is at variance with me. What it accepts, I accept. What it rejects, I reject.

Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples' freedom as well.

My neighbors ask me what the u.s. is like, and they accuse me of lying when i tell them about the hunger and cold and people sleeping in the streets. They refuse to believe me. How can that be in such a rich country?

Any people seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well

It sometimes seems that people in the states are so accustomed to watching death on "Eyewitness News," watching people starve to death in Africa, being tortured to death in Latin America or shot down on Asian streets, that, somehow, for them, people across the ocean—people "up there" or "down there" or "over there"—are not real.

I wondered how all those people in the states who tried to sound tough, saying that the u.s. should go in here, bomb there, take over this, attack that, would feel if they knew that they were indirectly responsible for babies being burned to death.

I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon.

Another pig comes in. A Black pig. In uniform. He comes closer and i see that he is not a cop but a hospital security guard. He stands not too far from where i am lying and i can see he is not at all hostile. His face breaks into a kind of reserved smile and, very discreetly, he clenches his fist and gives me the power sign. That man will never know how much better he made me feel at that moment.

But I never could make much sense out of war.

Charlie was one of the women who worked the hardest to get better medical conditions. It's kind of ironic when i think about it now. A little more than a year later, i heard over the prison grapevine that Charlene had died from undiagnosed cancer of the uterus.

To all the people in the world who feel empty Grab onto a piece of my heart For I feel empty too And together we can make a chain of love.

My lord! Do not place me so high, That I cannot embrace Those who are not my own. - Never Place Me So High

Grace is when your kindness and your character are radiant through your action

You are loved more than you've ever know

Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Ma fille, malheureusement, ou heureusement, tout le monde ne peut pas accéder au bonheur, que ce soit dans la vie ou dans une histoire. Le bonheur des uns engendre du malheur chez les autres. C'est triste, mais c'est ainsi...

Oh, ma syngué sabour, quand c'est dur d'êre femme, ça devient dur d'être homme!

We've been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.