Quotes About Compassion

We had an injured wolf brought in a couple weeks ago. Clipped by a car. Matt saved it. We've gotten a lot of hits on the pictures there, and the column Tansy wrote for it.

Your gift, your power comes from your heart and your belly as much as your mind. Your belly holds the anger, your heart the compassion. Your mind the will.

Make you wonder, when you're feeling low, what it is about yourself they can't love. I know how it is, and how hard it is to accept someone who should love you absolutely, doesn't. Or not enough. But it wasn't me, and it wasn't you. It was them, the lack in them.

you stepped back, you squared your shoulders, and you showed you were willing to face what life had dealt you. That takes courage, Margo—much more—than leaping into the void. I had people to turn to. So do we all. It's only fools and egotists who think no one will be there to lend a hand. And bigger food and bigger egotists who don't reach out.

Knowledge, and truth, save us from chaos." His tone was quiet, reasonable. And made her want to bite him. "Tempering them with compassion and tolerance makes us human. Without those things, fanatics feed on fear and ignorance. The way they did in Salem, three hundred years ago.

Love costs nothing. I wonder at those who can't feel it, or won't give or take it.

Your ignorance does you no credit." He walked onto the porch, flicked a hand at the door. It opened with a rush of wind. "Do you think power—the light, the dark—has no source? Has no history or purpose? You owe what you are to all who came before you. To their bounty and their battles, their cruelty and their compassion." He shook his head.

It's why they can't beat us. I don't know why they want to kill us, destroy everything that's good. I can feel what they feel, but I can't understand it. I know they can hurt us, take from us, but they can't beat us because we can love a good dog enough to let him go even when it hurts. They can burn the land, but we'll plant it. They can burn it again, but we'll plant it again. They can't stop us. They can't win.

The law of karma has made it so. According to classic Hinduism, if someone were to help those people by easing their suffering, they would be working against the law of karma. People suffer to work off their karmic debt, and if you helped them, then they would have to come back again and suffer even more to work off that debt. Plus, you would be doing something cruel by not letting them suffer, and you would increase your own karma problems. Helping

If for no other reason, God sometimes allows us to suffer pain so that we can comfort others suffering in a like situation.

Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help somebody close to you who you think needs help even if he doesn't think. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear

You can love completely without complete understanding.

I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.

you can love completely without complete understanding. That I have known and preached. my father said.

For all of us, though, it is much easier to read the waters of tragedy. (64)

Help," he said, "is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.

When others, out of Jealousy, Mistreat me with abuse, slander, and so on, I will practice accepting defeat And offering the victory to them.

The Buddha stated that "happiness is the greatest wealth.

make a fundamental change in the relationship between nations, organisations, religions and politics start to listen, learn and offer badly needed resources stop trying to impose our will on the rest of the world train our armies to offer constructive resolution to conflict not destructive work on our inner life and develop our humanity.

The swing between confronting the dangerous or brutal and the beautiful or the kind is one of the elements of being human that I have battled with all my life. That mixture of love and savagery is there in every important relationship in our lives: with parents, siblings, lovers, our closest friends. I have always wanted to be faithful to that truth.

Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt.

We serve the world as one beggar telling other beggars where we found bread.

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can't just try to see the other side of an argument. That's not enough. You have to go all the way. Over