Quotes About Compassion

It is our privilege to be allowed to be charitable, for only so can we grow. The poor man suffers that we may be helped; let the giver kneel down and give thanks, let the receiver stand up and permit.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

Love one another". What for? That doctrine was preached, but the explanation is here. Why should I love every one? Because they and I are one. Why should I love my brother? Because he and I are one. There is this oneness; this solidarity of the whole universe. From the lowest worm that crawls under our feet to the highest beings that ever lived – all have various bodies, but are the one Soul.

Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.

It is a weakness to think that any one is dependent on me, and that I can do good to another. This belief is the mother of all our attachment, and through this attachment comes all our pain.

if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written, in spite of resistance: "Help and not Fight," "Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace and not Dissension." 1.2

Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

but for a man to constantly do good without caring for the approbation of his fellow men is indeed the highest sacrifice man can perform.

Most of our difficulties in our daily lives come from being unable to hold our minds in this way. For instance, if a man does evil to us, instantly we want to react evil, and every reaction of evil shows that we are not able to hold the Chitta down; it comes out in waves towards the object, and we lose our power.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

inequality without implicating God?

The selfless and unattached man may live in the very heart of a crowded and sinful city; he will not be touched by sin.

Mercy shall not be for men alone, but shall go beyond, and embrace the whole world.

To love anyone personally is bondage. Love all alike, then all desires fall off.

Go from village to village, do good to humanity and to the world at large.

I must love Him for love's sake. I cannot trade in love.

I do not care for liberation, I would rather go to a hundred thousand hells, 'doing good to others(silently) like the spring', this is my religion.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.

Knowing someone who belongs to another species can enlarge your soul in surprising ways.

Just about every animal," Scott says—not just mammals and birds—"can learn, recognize individuals, and respond to empathy.

Love is the highest and best use of a life.