Quotes About Compassion

The foundation of all personal development, actually, is self-acceptance and self-love.

When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.

If giving hurts, then receiving will likely hurt, and you must again ask yourself why you feel or think the way you do.

Hardship is only easy to endure when it is someone else's!

You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.

The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.

One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.

The world is full of victims; don't add to the growing culture of "I've a story to tell", well not unless it's a story to help others overcome situations or as a warning.

If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.

The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.

Like Lenny McLean said, and I agree with him totally, he told me it's these bastards that hurt the old people and fuck up the young kids, they are the animals and they hardly get any prison sentence for it.

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done.

Ruling or judging others is considered to be a sentiment that resonates in very low frequencies.

Do not be deceived that you are weak because you have forgiven; instead be rest assured that you are now showing great strength - after all, forgiving is one of the most difficult things to do.

Remember, forgiveness is not a millstone but a milestone!

If you have a fault it is you do not forgive easy!

If you want to be loved, then learn to love back.

When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.

When I got off him, I spat the blood that was swamping my mouth in to his face, I looked down at him and it really looked like he was dying… shit! The ambulance arrived in about a minute and they got an oxygen mask straight on him and I could see the life draining out of him. You see, this is the problem; we are only human and flesh and blood.

You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you, but if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a pane unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color, or theory.

The best relationship you ever know will be the one in which you love each other for your faults—not despite them.

Anger is a destroying force. What all the world needs is its opposite-- an uplifting power. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, As A Farm Woman Thinks (3) (November 1,1921).