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Quotes About Compassion

If someone has hurt you, lied about and vilified you, and has said all manner of evil about you, is your thought of that person negative? If so, you have not yet forgiven. The roots of hatred are still in your subconscious mind, playing havoc with you and your good. The only way to wither those roots is with love. Wish for the person all the blessings of life. This is the meaning of Forgive until seventy times seven.
~ Murphy Joseph
As you would want people to think about you, think you about them in like manner.
~ Murphy Joseph
The way you think, feel, and act toward others returns at last upon yourself.
~ Murphy Joseph
The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them. But
~ Murray Leinster
Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.
~ Myla Kabat-Zinn
Discernment includes seeing that even as we attempt to see our children for who they are, we also cannot fully know who they are or where their lives will take them. We can only love them, and accept them, and honor the mystery of their being.
~ Myla Kabat-Zinn
I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.
~ Myles Horton
You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.
~ Myles Horton
A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.
~ Myles Munroe
Wolves exhibiting strange behaviour -- caught in traps and thrashing about, injured by other creatures or by bullets, pups suffering from epilepsy -- are attacked and killed by their pack members. But here everyone is human and must try to understand each other's mystery. Each other's pain.
~ Nadeem Aslam
We are not men of hate, but we must be men of justice.
~ Nadeem Aslam
If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were both ten years old.
~ Nadeem Aslam
The forgiveness of the weak is the air you strong ones breath, David. Didn't you know? You don't see it but you felt it just then. They allow you to go on living.
~ Nadeem Aslam
If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were both ten years old.
~ Nadeem Aslam
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
~ Nadine Gordimer
And in India it was necessary to take people's feelings into consideration.
~ Naipaul V.S.
Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.
~ Nalini Singh
Riley : Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on. Mercy: Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies.
~ Nalini Singh
Accept All Humans As Your Equals And Let Them Be our Only Sect
~ Nanak
Nanak dukhiya sab sansar.
~ Nanak
I decided to forgive you after reading The Little Flowers of Saint Francis," María began. "You remember the wolf I talked about? Well, he was a monster who terrorized everybody until Saint Francis gave him a talking-to. He was sweet as a lamb and never ate anything but vegetables after that." "I didn't know wolves could digest vegetables," said Matt, who had studied biology. "That's not the point.
~ Nancy Farmer
When you're small, you can choose which way to grow. If you're kind and decent, you grow into a kind and decent man. The idea that if you were mean, you might stay mean forever had never occurred to him.
~ Nancy Farmer
You must not be hurt by other people's ignorance.
~ Nancy Farmer
I remember too much. But don't worry, Don Sombra. People like me have an infinite ability to forgive themselves.
~ Nancy Farmer