Quotes About Compassion

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

We are all part and parcel of one country. And that country is of love.

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

There is no wisdom without love.

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.