Quotes About Compassion

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Charity is certainly greater than any rule.

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

it talks to your corpse with gentle words.

Gentleness can be developed with simple thoughts. First, appreciate who you are and make friends with yourself. Look at what you can do, and don't allow what you cannot do to oppress you. Rather, regard it as a future adventure. The practice of meditation allows for this development to take place.

Benevolence requires the steadiness of an elephant—a sense of trusting ourselves and remembering the suffering of others—because it is easy to become irritated with people.

When we contemplate our motivation, we expand our attitude from being concerned with just ourselves to caring for the whole world.

To be gentle is to encourage ourselves.

Happiness is not necessarily how many things we have—happiness is the ability to share what we have with others.

My meditation teachers taught me that with aggression, you may accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.

is the ability to share what we have with others.

How we move forward cannot depend on one spiritual tradition, economy, or political system, but rather should depend on who we feel we are, both personally and socially. What is the nature of humans and our society?

In this light, human nature is the most important global issue.

However, especially in an age of coarsening values, it is hard to feel our natural kindness because it is often blocked by reactionary emotions. This occurs when we divide the world into us versus them. Then the more we forget our kindness, the more unkindness there is, and the more we forget.

Within humanity is goodness that is alive and fully intact but, in these times, it is surrounded by the darkness of uncertainty and fear.

Shambhala is not only a place; it is a spiritual path

The journey of the bodhisattva warrior starts with the basic attitude of enlarging our motivation to include the welfare of others. This is a simple response to this dark age. Let's begin right now by engaging love and compassion however we can—not tomorrow, but today.

One of my favorite sayings is "If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.

Then we wonder, "Why is nothing turning out the way I want?" Tiger mind creates a little gap in which we can look at our choices. We could get mad or not get mad. We could manipulate or not manipulate. We could become desirous and fixate. We could get jealous or not. It's up to us. Wisdom and compassion begin with cultivating discernment—not just reacting to what happens.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.

when you give love... it grows and grows.