Quotes About Compassion

In fact, as human beings, we are by nature social animals, and our happiness and even survival depend upon our interaction and cooperation. So when positive emotions guide intelligence, it become constructive. The warm, compassionate heart is the basis for peace of mind, without which the mind will always be uncomfortable and disturbed.

Train constantly toward the chosen objects: those living together [with you], those hostile toward you, and those unappealing to you.

Do not boast to anyone, ever, when you engage in the practice of your good deeds.

Do not be ill-tempered, regardless of how others treat you.

The Dalai Lama once said that he envisions a time when, just as today we accept good diet and exercise as key to physical health, the world will come to recognize the importance of mental care and training for mental health and human flourishing. That time may not be so far away.

If you do not thoroughly exchange Your own happiness with others' suffering, You will not become a buddha. Even in samsara there will be no happiness.178

So long as I fail to view this [the self] as the enemy, so long will I continue to seek the well-being of this self.

Alternatively, you can recite the following when no one is around: "May the sufferings of all sentient beings and those sufferings' causes ripen upon me, and may my own self be subdued and annihilated. May my virtues ripen on all sentient beings, and may they become endowed with happiness." From the depth of your bones, cultivate the thought "O my dear mother, my dear brother [and sister] sentient beings!

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.

He had used it as the epigram to his 1967 book 'To Seek a Newer World,' and it expressed two pillars of his faith: that everyone has a duty to alleviate suffering, and that no one can live a fully happy life while surrounded by the unaddressed misery of others.

Adult social stuff can't be harder than seventh grade. It's not hard to make friends. Just be an active listener. If you listen hard enough, you can tell what a person needs from you. And if you give them what they need, you've got a friend for life.

I thought you were a problem that needed solving. But you don't need solving. You need understanding.

Listen, caring about things don't maek you soft. IT makes you alive.

If you listen hard enough, you can tell what a person needs from you. And if you give them what they need, you've got a friend for life.

Listen. Caring about things doesn't make you soft. It makes you alive.

Listen, caring about things don't make you soft. It makes you alive.

she was reminded that he was just a person. He mad massive mistakes, he felt things, he was sorry, ad he was trying to find his way, like everyone else.

Just be kind to yourself.

What was it like, the luxury of not hurting?

One time, while waiting in a Kmart checkout line, five-year-old Shane had seen some guy steal a waffle iron from a woman's cart while she wasn't looking. His mind had quietly spiraled over it. What if waffles were all she had to feed her thirteen badass kids because their dad squandered her modest bank-teller salary on fantasy-football bets and scratch cards? What if her life depended on that waffle iron? He'd obsessed about it for days.

And snakes used to ruin him. Just the idea of them. Shane couldn't bear the thought of those delicate-looking reptiles trying their hardest to travel around their patch of forest while legless and footless. It broke his heart! They were so unfairly handicapped. He used to obsessively sketch pictures of snakes with four legs, until it occurred to him that he was, in fact, drawing lizards.

I can live a comfortable life. The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Eliza, are you crying?" "No." "Yes, you are. Shit, I'm sorry. I was only trying to cheer you up." "You did. It's just that, well, sometimes happiness hurts.