Quotes About Compassion

Don't hold resentments for the experiences that helped make you who you are

Forgiveness does not mean we simply forget, or we are ok with what has happened. Forgiveness means we understand humans unconsciously do horrible things. Forgiveness is a choice not to be held in a pain prison of the past. Forgiveness is to choose presence. Forgiveness is to choose peace.

Judging someone without knowing their life experience, without knowing their pain, by their physical appearance, by their social status, from your own belief system, from other people's gossip, is a very shallow view, and a very shallow opinion.

Mistakes need correction not punishment

Our reaction to others does not define them, it defines us

Remember, the only way to bring about the greater good, is to be the greater good.

Right living is the best way to eliminate suffering

Thank the people who wronged you for the lessons in life

The closer two hearts are to each other, the softer each needs to speak to be heard

The more we care, the greater the pain, and the greater the need for understanding

Value in the greater good. The value in someone doing something for the greater good, isn't in the fact that they did something for the greater good. It is in the realization that of all the choices they had, they choose to do something for the greater good. They choose to be part of something bigger than themselves. Their choice is love.

We shine the brightest when we help others do the same. The result is a beautiful night sky

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl. Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered. Take your time. Then imagine God. M. Barin, poet

The living must look after one another, he thought. The worst possible outcome is to die without having lived.

What the hell did people have to keep them occupied on a damp and windy day in January apart from sitting indoors and lapping up the story of somebody who had suffered even more than they were doing.

The true revolution can only occur within the heart.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. But when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.

Let me have a faithful account of all that concerns you; I would know everything, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.

Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.

If you love me, help me. All I want is someone to love me.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested "in how they feel and in their point of view.