Quotes About Compassion

to therapists who made you write letters telling your parents you forgave them even though they'd wasted the most potentially wondrous years of their lives running after you like a pair of underpaid waiters at that same hotel buffet you didn't even know

If each person attains inner peace through meditation and develops love for all, it will not be long before peace prevails on our planet.

If we realize the divinity that enlivens all life forms on our planet , we will spread peace and love wherever we go.

Love is contagious. Be a carrier!

Heal the world, one broken heart at a time.

Love is a commodity whose treasure-house increases when we give it out.

Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

While we still have a chance, let us learn to respect the beauty of the beasts.

the surest way to love our neighbor, Teresa advises, is not to dream of doing big deeds for our neighbor "one day," but to take advantage of the little, everyday opportunities that present themselves in ordinary life.

The focus now is not on what we are getting from the relationship but on what we can give, by way of profound filial love, faithful friendship, and spousal union. Our focus is on the Other and how to please Him.15

shun rash judgment. Even if you should see your neighbor doing what is wrong, refuse to pass judgment on him, excuse him instead. Excuse his intention even if you cannot excuse his act, which may be the fruit of ignorance or surprise or chance.27

humility and compassion are among the chief fruits of bearing such an ongoing condition of weakness in patience and in faith.

You test the virtue of patience in yourself when your neighbors insult you. Your humility is tested by the proud, your faith by the unfaithful, your hope by the person who has no hope. Your justice is tried by the unjust, your compassion by the cruel, and your gentleness and kindness by the wrathful. Your neighbors are the channel through which all your virtues are tested and come to birth, just as the evil give birth to all their vices through their neighbors.72

I always loved him more after he had scolded me than I did at any other time.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ...

A society with more justice needs less charity.

Don't go thinking I was one of these hellfire-and-brimstone fellers. No, sir. I put more stock in Jesus than Jeremiah. And I never tried to tell a man Jesus really turned that wine into water, not the other way around. Just tried to persuade him that getting hog-drunk and killing his own brother wasn't Christian.

To be merciful to [indwelling] sin is to be cruel to yourself.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.