Quotes About Compassion

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Jesus' command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.

Sometimes I remember the way I used to be," she said as we sat across the table from each other, "and I'm surprised nobody ever smacked me." I took a long sip of my coffee so that I would not have to answer her. I wanted to tell her that she ought to be more generous to the girl she used to be, if not out of respect for herself, then out of respect for me, or more specifically for the boy I used to be, who loved that girl, after all.

She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.

They were like those deep-sea creatures with watery, transparent skin: you could see the soft little jerking beans of their hearts, you understood that the very thing that was supposed to protect them was the thing that made them vulnerable, and you knew you couldn't help them, so you decided to love them instead.

never feel guilty about anything shame and guilt are a waste of time just do what you do-- and deal with it

You can do just about anything you want — as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, or anything, it's probably OK.

But true friends make an effort to stick together, even as it gets harder, even as they move in opposite directions.

Be generous, be spirited, and you'll lead a happy life.

College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of twenty or thirty years ago," Konrath reports.

Both ask you to look at the painful realities of life, to understand them, and to use this understanding as the foundation for developing peace, wisdom, faith, and compassion. Both systems culminate in an "awakening" or "enlightenment.

The Buddha said everything starts with thoughts; that we speak and act based on thoughts; that our words and actions turn into habits—or addictions; and that those habits shape our character into something inflexible. So, he says, "Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings…. As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become." This

When we think that we are separate, we put ourselves in constant conflict, trying to get ours, always in fear of losing what we have, alienating others whom we use for our selfish purposes, lying and cheating to make sure that we aren't left behind.

Turning our will and our lives over to this power means living in accordance with what is true; it means acting out of compassion and kindness; pursuing our noblest goals; seeking truth in all things; it means striving for perfection of heart and mind while bowing to the truth of who we are, with all our imperfections and failings.

Now smile a real smile for me so I know you`re not suffering inside.

What do you do when you are really, really sad?" When you are full of dread, is what she really meant. Godbee exhaled through her nose, making a whistling sound. "Hmm. When I`m genuinely suffering I try to think of someone worse off than I am. And then, if it happens to be someone I know and I`m feeling particularly saintly, I try to do something nice for him or her.

Sometimes I think as adults we think of them as — because they're small in size that they're small in all ways — and they're not. They have big feelings, and they have big eyes, they see things, they hear things, they're living life just the way an adult does and I think sometimes as adults we forget that.

We must think beyond ourselves

Don't treat people as bad as they are. Treat them as good as you are.

Learn how to learn from those you disagree with or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe.

Listening well is a superpower. While listening to someone you love keep asking them "Is there more?" until there is no more.

Anger is not the proper response to anger. When you see someone angry you are seeing their pain. Compassion is the proper response to anger.