Quotes About Compassion

Zarife de kendine göre Yedigey'in iyili?ini istemi? ve bu konuda vicdan?n?n sesine uymu?tu. Bunun için Zarife'yi suçlam?yor, ona k?zam?yordu. Zaten insan sevdi?ine k?zamazd? ki! Daha çok kendisini suçluyor, kendisini kusurlu buluyordu. Sevdi?i kad?n ac? çekece?ine kendisi ac? çeksindi. B?rak?p gitse bile onu hep sevgiyle anard?.

When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority. When you are truly aligned with virtue, a harmony pervades. VIII.

Have love in your heart, but be smart and express your compassion with restraint and detachment.

A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

No Madonna and Child could touch Her tenderness for a son She soon would have to forget.... The air was heavy with odors of diarrhea, Of unwashed children with washed-out ribs And dried-up bottoms waddling in labored steps Behind blown-empty bellies. Other mothers there Had long ceased to care, but not this one: She held a ghost-smile between her teeth, And in her eyes the memory Of a mother's pride...

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Mother Teresa once said, "If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will." In

acting with responsiveness to others can create tighter bonds:

Her nurses used her drawing as a guidebook for caring for her.

but this experiment made me think about how I'm impacting others.

A good change leader never thinks, "Why are these people acting so badly? They must be bad people." A change leader thinks, "How can I set up a situation that brings out the good in these people?

Walking in love means giving the other person what he or she needs the most when it is least deserved, because that's exactly how God has treated you.

Love is not a feeling; it's giving someone what he or she needs most when it is least deserved. That's how God loved me, and I choose to stick with the program.

Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.

And finally, I bless my daughters, who are yet unborn. I pray that, if life tests them—as sooner or later life is bound to do—they'll be able to stand steadfast and think carefully, using their hearts as well as their heads, understanding when they need to compromise, and knowing when they must not.

I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that.

May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours.

Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we're willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them.

Motherhood taught me something new about love. It was the one relationship where you gave everything you had and then wished you had more to give.

I forgave you a long time ago,' I say to Ram. 'Though I didn't know it until now. Because this is the most important aspect of love, whose other face is compassion: It isn't doled out, drop by drop. It doesn't measure who is worthy and who isn't. It is like the ocean. Unfathomable. Astonishing. Measureless.