Quotes About Compassion

We forgive someone of a wrong they have done us when we decide that we will not make them suffer for it in any way. This

greatest need of collective humanity—is renovation of our heart.

We have a terrible time understanding love, because we confuse it with desire. Desire and love are two utterly different kinds of things. Not only is desire not love; it is often opposed to love. Right action is the act of love, regardless of the desires of anyone involved.

What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.

No love left, only kindness

It seems many people operate on the principle that whatever happened to them is not abuse, but if it had happened to someone else, or if it had been a bit more extreme, then it would have been abusive.

What might it look like if we lived as if we will not be endlessly divided from those who have brought us harm and whom we have failed as well?

People often think they can hate some people and love others fully, but it's hard. Love and hate can't live in the same heart.

It's impossible to hate and be happy at the same time.

Mere Morality can be summarized as: using instinct, law, and reason as guides, try to act with the intention of minimizing harm.

Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your fragile ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

Sometimes, all you have to do is shift your perspective to see someone else's truth.

May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.

Love is not a finite emotion. We don't have only so much to share.

Love is not a finite emotion. We don't have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it.

Seek the goodness, become the goodness.D

The roads to salvation are many. Forgiveness is not the only path.

You can't save the world, so don't sacrifice your happiness trying.' 

this museum must celebrate the OTHER lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion...that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them. It is THESE voices - these choirs of empathy, tolerance and compassion - that I pray one day will sing from this mountaintop.

So you mean that even having the power to interfere and prevent your child feel pain, you would choose to show their love letting him learn his own lessons? - Sure, pain is part of growing up. It's how we learn. The camerlegno shook his head. - Exactly. p.89

Nothing captured human interest like human tragedy

I call it 'Prayer for the Future.' " Edmond closed his eyes and spoke slowly, with startling assurance. "May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.

Most importantly," he said, "this museum must celebrate the other lesson history has taught us—that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them. It is these voices—these choirs of empathy, tolerance, and compassion—that I pray one day will sing from this mountaintop.