Quotes About Compassion

When your fear touches someone's pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone's pain, it become compassion.

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table; indeed they may not even believe supper is being served. They are not storing up 'merit.'; They just smile because their heart is ripe. They are kind for no particular reason; they just love.

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn't matter if you're going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

To heal is to touch with love that which was previously touched by fear.

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)

forgiveness is not a condoning of the unskillful act which has caused injury, but a touching of the actor with mercy and loving kindness.

It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.

The person you like the least is the person you need the most.

Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

It's so easy to laugh. It's so easy to hate. It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling.

Do not hurt where holding is enough; do not wound where hurting is enough; do not maim where wounding is enough; and kill not where maiming is enough; the greatest warrior is he who does not need to kill.

It may be that hope misleads. But hate—hate corrupts. I have been too quick to hate. I become like what I abhor.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the great German Protestant theologian who died opposing Hitler's holocaust, believed that the test of the morality of a society is how it treats its children. We flunk Bonhoeffer's test every hour of every day in America as we let the violence of guns and the violence of poverty relentlessly stalk and sap countless child lives."6

All life is rooted in pain. There can be no escape, but love makes the hurt bearable.

la justicia debería proteger alguna vez a aquellos menos capaces de protegerse a sí mismos. ¿O ha cambiado eso?

What else is love," Mathiax had asked her one day, "but taking the pain of another as your own—especially when you are not obliged to?" Thus, pain was woven into the very fabric of the universe—because there could be no love without it, and because the Infinite Father had set love as the cornerstone of His creation.

justice ought sometimes to protect those least able to protect themselves.

Don't the Conservatives know that Jesus was soft on crime?

You don't have to be good at something to be liked.

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.