Quotes About Compassion

Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha's buddha nature.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...

I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.

When Mother Nature turns on us, I hope that she doesn't show the same compassion that we, humans, show to the environment and all the other life here on Earth.

The mark of humanity is how it treats the world and those who share it with us...

Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature.

An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.

Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.

stay curious and stay the brave, strong, unrelenting soldier of love that you are.