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Quotes About Compassion

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Love is based on respect. Fear doesn't respect anything, including itself. If I feel sorry for you, it means I don't respect you. You cannot make your own choices.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.
~ Miguel Ruiz
We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because we love ourselves so much we don't want to keep paying for the injustice.
~ Miguel Ruiz
The result of practicing the fifth agreement is the complete acceptance of yourself just the way you are, and the complete acceptance of everybody else just the way they are. The reward is your eternal happiness.
~ Miguel Ruiz
If we are selfish and we feel cranky, then we believe that nobody has the right to be happy around us.
~ Miguel Ruiz
What makes you happy is love coming out of you. And if you are generous with your love, everyone is going to love you. You are never going to be alone if you are generous. If you are selfish, you are always going to be alone, and there is no one to blame but you. Your generosity will open all the doors, not your selfishness. Selfishness
~ Miguel Ruiz
That is the healing. Three simple points: the truth, forgiveness, and self-love. With these three points, the whole world will heal and will no longer be a mental hospital.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Forgiveness is the only way to heal. We can choose to forgive because we feel compassion for ourselves.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Life can be very easy when love is your way of life. You can be loving all the time. This is your choice. You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because to love makes you so happy.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Most of the time when we tell our children how to live their lives, it's because we don't respect them. We feel sorry for them, and we try to do for them what they should do for themselves.
~ Miguel Ruiz
When someone can touch what used to be a wound and it no longer hurts you, then you know you have truly forgiven.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key.
~ Miguel Ruiz
4. Always Do Your Best Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
~ Miguel Ruiz
We don't have the right to change anyone else, and no one else has the right to change us. If we are going to change, it is because we want to change, because we don't want to suffer any longer.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Si no te gusta una persona, puedes alejarte de ella. Si no te gustas a ti mismo, no tienes escapatoria; estás contigo mismo adondequiera que vayas.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Hiçbir ÅŸeyi kiÅŸisel alg?lama. BaÅŸkalar?n?n yapt??? ÅŸeylerin nedeni sen deÄŸilsin. BaÅŸkalar?n?n söyledikleri ve yapt?klar?, kendi gerçeklerinin, kendi hayallerinin bir yans?mas?d?r. BaÅŸkalar?n?n davran??lar?na ve düÅŸüncelerine ba????kl?k kazand???n zaman, gereksiz yere ac? çekmekten kurtulursun.
~ Miguel Ruiz
When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. Even
~ Miguel Ruiz
Forgiveness. There is no other way but forgiveness to clean the wounds of all the poison.
~ Miguel Ruiz
You have the right to be mad, but I don't have to be mad because you are mad. I didn't do anything to cause your anger." You don't have to accept your partner's anger at all, but you can allow her to be angry. There is no need to argue; just allow her to be what she is, allow her to heal without intervening. And you can also agree not to interfere with your own healing process.
~ Miguel Ruiz
That is the healing. Three simple points: the truth, forgiveness, and self-love.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Hemos de perdonar a los que creemos que se han portado mal con nosotros, no porque se lo merezcan, sino porque sentimos tanto amor por nosotros mismos que no queremos continuar pagando por esas injusticias.
~ Miguel Ruiz
All humans create their story with their own unique point of view. Why try to impose your story on other people when for them your story is not true? When you understand that, you no longer have the need to defend what you believe. It's not important to be right or to make others wrong. Instead, you see everybody as an artist, a storyteller. You know that whatever they believe is just their point of view. It has nothing to do with you.
~ Miguel Ruiz
There was a woman, for example, who was intelligent and had a very good heart. She had a daughter whom she adored and loved very much.
~ Miguel Ruiz