Quotes About Compassion

research on meditation does indicate that staying in a compassionate mode toward one's self removes brain activity from zones that trigger flight, fight, and frenzied eating.

people with weight issues often feel judged and attacked, partly because they spend so much time judging and attacking themselves.

All for all, always.

Think through the well-meaning motivations of both your Dictator and your Wild Child, until you really understand that within their limited perspectives they're doing their very best. Then offer them both kindness.

Breathe. Ask. Love. If you can't love your enemy, love yourself. Soon

The dignity of these humans is to weep.

Just remember you're not alone here." I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

If you can't find the love, let God love through you.

It's time for forgiveness. Forgive. Be forgiven. And God will fill you with a peace beyond all understanding.

Mercy is His gift. You shine with His divine light every time you are merciful and forgive someone.

It's time to turn judgment into compassion. Pain into healing. Hate into forgiveness. Because when you forgive someone, you release yourself as well.

I'm not asking you to change your mind. Just bend your heart a little. Your mind will follow.

God loves you. He wants you to be His child, not His avenger. You find the facts, but let Him reveal the truth. Because He's the only one who knows it. All of it.

Suffering doesn't concern itself with the scale of other sufferings.

She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food.

My calculations about how to stay alive and sane on this particular planet have clearly been at fault. Lots of people are plenty uglier and poorer than me without seeming to mind, without the self-hate and self-pity – the sentimentality, in a word – that makes me such a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude.

Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.

Suffering doesn't concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. It has no community sense. It isn't relative, is it.

Kingsley used to tell the following anecdote about sibling rivalry – how he found me, when I was four or five, lying on the stairs in an ecstasy of grief, how he worriedly knelt at my side and, after several minutes, managed to quell my hiccuppy gaspings, my heaving chest. Then he said, 'Easy now . . . What is it?' When at last I could find and shape the words, I said, 'Philip had a biscuit' . . .

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven in Hell's despair.

Suffering doesn't concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. It has no community sense. It isn't relative, is it. I can't be the only one to have noticed that. Whoever said it first – did they have more to say? The

When ibn Killis was on his deathbed the Caliph, deeply distressed, went to see his Jewish counsellor. The Caliph lamented: 'O Yaqub. How I wish that you were for sale so that I might buy you with my kingdom, or that you could be ransomed, that I might ransom you.'25 He later attended ibn Killis's funeral and laid his former adviser into the grave with his own hands–an extraordinary honour for a Muslim ruler to show to a Jew.

Ce qui m'effraie, ce n'est pas l'oppression des méchants; c'est l'indifférence des bons.

If there is to be peace on earth and good will toward men, we must finally believe in the ultimate morality of the universe, and believe that all reality hinges on moral foundations.