Quotes About Compassion

We are all blessed in more ways than we realize. The universe is a very generous place. We must learn to give back to create the proper balance. to give and to see the smile upon another being's face, that's one of the richest feelings one can experience. Go get rich.

Most war and strife come from a belief in scarcity.

People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.

Respond to negative thoughts as you would to small children who do not know any better; simply smile and show them a better way to be.

You came to develop an open heart. You chose to be in all the circumstances that closed your heart in the past. You chose parents who did not know how to love you, criticized you often, lacked time to spend with you, and acted in ways you had judged impossible to love in other lifetimes. Yet, because they were your parents and you were their child, you found it in your heart to love them, and thus grew spiritually by learning to love behaviors you had previously judged unlovable.

Top 7 things for an entrepreneur are: passion, vision, obsession, salesmanship, compassion, contagious energy and resilience. If you have them, you will be able to withstand any weather.

The woman next to me has no laces in her shoes and looks exhausted. She carries her belongings in a faded carrier bag. I cannot tell how old she is. Somewhere between forty and death.

As Charlotte Brontë said, 'Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.' Parts

My now wife Debbie is a therapist, and over and over she has witnessed that the best cure for distress is love.

The best doctors in the world are healers and not dealers!

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

Emma fussed with the cinnamon-rose starts she had planted all over the backyard. She was as tender with the roses as if they were her children, and every hour or two she watered them.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

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You can't judge a person by what they're doing, till you know why they're doing it.

Let someone love you just as you are. As flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you might feel, as unaccomplished as you might think you are, let someone love you just as you are. And let that someone be YOU!

I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity—akin to torture.

I can't stand to think about Cheyenne up there hungry and cold with a gun pointed to her head." "I've

You know as well as I do that the heart is a fascinating organ. It's barely as large as a fist and yet it has the capacity to love a hundred people, each one in a different way."-Yvonne Elliot

Love where there is no reason to love

Tara is the spiritual daughter of Avalokitesvara. She is usually either white or green in colour, and according to another beautiful legend she was born from the tears of Avalokitesvara as he wept over the sorrows of existence. In the midst of a great pool of his tears there appeared a white lotus. The lotus opened, and there was Tara , the very essence, indeed the quintessence, of compassion.

The bodhicitta (spirit of enlightenment) starts arising when one sees what a mess we are all in. One can't begin to see that until one is a little way out of the mess oneself.

The Bodhisattva, being joyful, spreads confidence and happiness wherever he or she goes. In a sense it is one's duty to be happy and joyful. One can't gladden others unless one is glad oneself.