Quotes About Compassion

It's not so simple as "They are a good person, so I like them." First, you fall for them. Then even after you know their all bad sides, you still want to hug them. With all their sides included.

The practice of Zen never explains anything. Zen simply points directly at our mind, our true self, so that we can directly attain enlightenment and help all beings. So

A famous poem of Sa'd? states: The children of Adam are members of a single body, For from the moment of creation they were made of one substance. When fate causes pain in any member, The other members cannot remain still. O thou who hath no sorrow in seeing the sorrow of others, Thou art not worthy of being called a human being.

And what ails you that you fight not in the way of God, and for the weak and oppressed—men, women, and children—who cry out, "Our Lord! Bring us forth from this town whose people are oppressors, and appoint for us from Thee a protector, and appoint for us from Thee a helper.

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

When you suffer, I suffer with you. To the end I am close to you.

The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.

It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

But pity was not action. It was not love. Pity, like passion, was no more than a kind of instinct.

There are neither the strong nor the weak. Can anyone say that the weak do not suffer more than the strong?

My native land is all lands, In no particular direction. My monastery is the solitary mountains, In no particular place. My family is all the beings of the six realms.

An integral part of developing healthy self-esteem are the values that are part of positive self-esteem itself––values such as taking personal responsibility for yourself, showing genuine compassion for others, making good choices, exercising self-discipline, using manners, being mindful, and having balance in all things.

A lot of people have lived richer lives because someone who cared took the time to listen.

I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

Allah says, "The broken ones are my beloved....

At the present time there is a reality in this world of starvation and poverty for many people, but we do not need to keep creating and perpetuating that reality.

Try to picture yourself as clearly as you can, and think of giving love to yourself, the same way you would to anyone else you care for.

We have to understand in a deep way that having what we truly want in life contributes to the general state of human happiness and supports others in creating more happiness for themselves.

The Kugels, Kugel hated to admit, might just have to, in the event of genocide, rely on the kindness of strangers. Mother used to say: I can name six million people who relied on the kindness of strangers.

Thousands of years of language and literature and we haven't come up with something better than these two, tired words -I'm sorry-' to express sympathy for a loss. Maybe because deep down we know that nothing we say can help someone who's suffering.

I held in my hand an invisible sword that sliced through every illusion. The sharpness of the blade gave me its icy and dazzling strength. I no longer believed in the compassion of men; I believed in the strength of the gods. I had averted my eyes from my suffering and fixed them on the stars.

Tears are the weapons of the weak and the condolence of the powerful.

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.