Quotes About Compassion

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better.

Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.

No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.

It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

What is done out of love is beyond Good and Evil

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Not-being-a-jerk means this and that are done, and now you gotta do the other thing. It's an ongoing process. Haku

You've won all creation. It's yours to do with it as you please- and you discover what pleases you most is doing the right thing for all creation in moment after moment.

The Buddha was not full of shit when he said the cause of suffering could be uprooted and that you can put an end to it once and for all. There is a way out of this mess humanity has found itself in. It's just that the answer to the cause of suffering — and the way to end it — are nothing at all like what you think they are or imagine they should be.

We always tend to think we can become happier by getting what we want, even if that means we have to make someone else suffer.

Even if the whole universe is nothing but a bunch of jerks doing all kinds of jerk-type things, there is still liberation in simply not being a jerk.

Rather than revering supposedly special people for being Buddhas, we should revere the Buddha present in all people, whenever and wherever it manifests. D?gen talks about learning from anyone, no matter what their station in life, if that person says or does something wise.

It's easy to become a Buddha. Don't be a jerk. Don't get hung up on life and death. Have compassion for everybody and everything. Show some respect to people who deserve it and kindness to people who need it. Don't get all caught up in hating stuff or in wanting stuff. Don't think too much. Don't worry. That's what we call being a Buddha. You don't need anything else.