Quotes About Compassion

We cannot judge our prayer...by how we feel when we pray, but rather by how we are loving when we live.

The reason that taking care of others doesn't work is that no one knows what another person needs to feel nourished (unless they can tell us clearly and directly, and in dysfunctional families, they usually don't). We end up guessing: "Oh, I think this would help." "It seems to me that he needs that." But we can't guess what would truly nourish another person. He or she may not even know themselves.

But remember that this is a dysfunctional pattern, born of misunderstanding and misinterpretation. We can't know what others truly need, but with a little investigation, we can find out what nourishes us, and place our focus there. Then we become a role model for others – when we see someone nourishing themselves, we tend to allow more space in our lives to do that for ourselves.

Remember that you can't fix other people's problems. Nothing you do will remove the misery they feel, if they don't want to let go of it. Being a scapegoat or whipping post for someone else's anger, frustration, grief, or misery is really only enabling them to stay in the same old patterns. There's absolutely nothing wrong with removing yourself from a difficult situation and getting on with your life. I wish you peace and healing.

Ce devrait être toujours comme ça quand on aime. Sans condition. Sans juger. Sans établir des critères, des préférences.

Tu vois, je crois que... Cette lutte de tous les jours, elle repose sur l'amour. Pas sur l'ambition, le besoin d'avoir, de posséder, mais sur l'amour... Pas l'amour de sois non plus. Ça c'est le malheur, c'est ce qui nous fait tourner en rond. Non ! Sur l'amour des autres, l'amour de la vie. Quand tu aimes, tu es sauvée.

When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

A person carrying a grudge who can't forgive is only hurting themself.

We find in Scripture the imperative to love our neighbors and care for the least of these. That is by far one of the clearest messages

Pray for our CEF worker who has been accused of inappropriate behavior with the children," she finally says in an agitated voice. "If these accusations are allowed to continue, Lord, it could devastate the man, and his family, and the ministry.

We have heard the single-issue, pro-life or -death refrain so many times that we no longer remember a time when America's houses of worship, including conservative ones, tended to approach a vast range of issues that affect our society with the humility and appreciation of their complexity that is their due.

To give up having to be right, having to prove someone else wrong, having to have the last word, having to be understood - that is the mark of a person who is capable and truly ready to create a loving relationship that will last and flourish over time.

Listening is love in action.

I open myself fully to give and receive love.

For learning to live happily even after, finding a way to forgive the unforgivable, and to move forward in life graciously with hope in our hearts and goodwill in our gestures and in our words, may very well be the essence of what it is to truly love each other.

can begin tending to the soft spots of your own tender heart, causing a bittersweet breakthrough in your ability to love yourself even when someone else refuses to. When you use the sheer force of your sorrow to crack open your heart, it promises to drop you down into a deeper capacity for compassion and care for all living beings. You become initiated into your own humanity

Effective grieving, however, turns the love you've been giving another toward yourself.

When you're willing to be with your experience, simply naming your feelings and needs without frantically trying to get rid of them, you're practicing what Buddhists call "mindfulness." It is neither passive nor active, but a deep honoring of your own humanity as you come to terms with the vulnerabilities of having a heart that loves.

Love exists to the extent that you give it away.

To give up having to be right, having to prove someone else wrong, having to have the last word, having to be understood—that is the mark of a person who is ready to create a loving relationship that can last and flourish over time.

When they have reached their term, take them back in kindness, or part from them in kindness. KORAN

When Andrew extended himself to meet Claudia's needs, she did not back up or push him away. She

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

He put his hand in his pocket and found the porte-bonheur, still warm. He looked back at the pier. The one-eyed cat waited. All at once, Henri Beauchamp spun on his heels and stretched his arms wide to the morning sky. It didn't matter, did it, what Jack was? It only mattered that he loved him.