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Quotes About Compassion

This is a tremendously spiritually therapeutic process, an emptying of myself so I can grow more in my love for others.
~ Gary L. Thomas
Just when we are most eager to make ourselves understood, we must strive to understand. Just when we seek to air our grievances, we must labor to comprehend another's hurt. Just when we want to point out the fallacies and abusive behavior of someone else, we must ruthlessly evaluate our own offensive attitudes and behaviors.
~ Gary L. Thomas
You won't find happiness at the end of a road named selfishness.
~ Gary L. Thomas
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
~ Gary Larson
Sometimes we feel helpless when it comes to serving others because it seems that we can't do anything. We have all heard others say "Don't just stand there, do something." That's not always what people need. Often, they simply need someone to create space for them. In other words, "Don't just do something, stand there!
~ Gary Morsch
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
~ Gary Oldman
In a case like this, most Christians won't even bother to ask what Jesus would do. That's because the answer wouldn't match their feelings. As we've indicated before, the answer would always be the same — he'd forgive.
~ Gary R. Renard
El que no perdona se ve obligado a juzgar, pues tiene que justificar el no haber perdonado
~ Gary R. Renard
If we can't take care of each other now, when the world is going to shit, how are we ever going to make it?
~ Gary Shteyngart
How can I make a difference in restoring what's been lost? How can I help make sure our veterans are never treated that way again?
~ Gary Sinise
While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, veterans, first responders, and the families that serve alongside them, we can always do a little more.
~ Gary Sinise
I can most certainly say that what happened to our country on September 11 broke my heart and changed me forever. It forced me to rethink everything. What do I really believe? How do I want to raise my kids? What kind of example do I want to set for them? What can I do to give back to this great country I love? How can I use my good fortune to help? It was a turning point and marked the beginning of a new level of service. I found that the more I gave, the more I healed.
~ Gary Sinise
Steppenwolf and Operation International Children
~ Gary Sinise
Ask Christ to reveal what your wife needs, where she is hurting, and how she is hurting. Seek His help to identify with her pain and understand your wife better. Ask Him to help you become the man He longs for you to be.
~ Gary Smalley
O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
~ Gary Snyder
All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.
~ Gary Snyder
The size of the place that one becomes a member of is limited only by the size of one's heart.
~ Gary Snyder
When two alien cultures meet, the stronger must transform the weaker with love or hate.     ââ'¬â€Damon Knight, "Stranger Station" (1956)
~ Gary Westfahl
When you give a feast, do not invite your friends or your rich neighbors, in case they might invite you in return, and you would be repaid," she said, gazing down at her hands on the bar. "Invite the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you.
~ Gary Whitta
one thing we can be certain: A person that is engaging in violence is hurting deeply, because a healthy and balanced soul is incapable of harming another.
~ Gary Zukav
Non-judgmental justice is a perception that allows you to see everything in life, but does not engage your negative emotions.
~ Gary Zukav
You become aware of the damage that you do to your own body when you feel and act without compassion.
~ Gary Zukav
if there is not compassion in your heart also for those who abuse and oppress—for those who have no compassion—do you not become like them? Compassion is being moved to and by acts of the heart, to and by the energy of love.
~ Gary Zukav
Oseba, ki je vklju?ena v nasilje, rani globoko, kajti zdrava in uravnotežena duša ni sposobna prizadeti druge.
~ Gary Zukav