Quotes About Compassion

When you seek happiness for yourself it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others you will find it yourself.

When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose to be kind.

When we are in fear, there is no room for love, and when we are lin love, there is no room for fear.

When you come to another with love in your heart, asking nothing, only offering that love, you create miraculous relationships.

Release your need to feel superior by seeing the unfolding of Spirit in everyone. Don't assess others on the basis of their appearance, achievements, and possessions. It's an old saw, but nonetheless true: We are all equal in the eyes of God.

I don't believe that God is concerned with whether or not we show our love by building magnificent edifices for worship, by attending services, or through practicing rules laid down by religious organizations. It seems to me that if God were to speak to us, the message would simply be to love each other and offer reverence rather than enmity toward all of life.

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

Know that there are people to whom you are connected who are available to help you find the right job, to solve a puzzling issue that seems irreconcilable, to help you back on your feet, and to resolve financial difficulties. Everyone becomes a compatriot rather than a competitor. This is spiritual awareness as I practice it.

Even if you're older, wiser, and richer than others and have more influence and power than they do, never assume that you know what's best for anyone.

Remind yourself that what other people do is not what bothers you, it's your reaction to it. Instead of saying "They shouldn't do that," say, "I wonder why I bother myself with what they are doing.

Não é a injustiça que conta, é o que você faz a respeito dela.

giving more, arguing less, and releasing your attachment to everything

Quit accumulating points for being right!

Instead of hating yourself, develop positive feelings. Learn from the error, and resolve not to repeat it but don't associate it with your self-worth.

truth and reread it daily: "When you seek happiness for yourself it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others you will find it yourself." Practice making meaningful

Here is the guts of both self-and other-directed love. Never confuse your self-worth (which is a given) with your behavior, or the behavior of others toward you.

When you have a choice to be right or to be kind, always pick kind. Living from your highest spiritual sense is the essence of what it means to be a self-actualized person.

You can't give away what you don't have. If you don't have love for yourself, then you can't be loving to others.

There is a universe within you—a unified field of all possibilities that you can reach as you become the compassionate witness. Be silent and shut down the inner dialogue. Most important, transcend the false self that we call the ego. That is when the healing will occur.

Let go of your ego's need to be right.

to see the unfolding of God in everyone and when it comes to external appearances, to be a humanistic teacher who wouldn't even notice.

The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways.

Watch your thoughts, and when they're anything other than compassionate, change them!

when you judge another person, you do not define them. You define yourself as someone who needs to judge others.