Quotes About Compassion

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Anger and anger can not solve any problem.

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

It is through our anger and hatred that we transform people into enemies.

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.