Quotes About Compassion

Toi qui veux la paix, tu ne peux la trouver que par le pardon complet.

As the Course says, "Everything you teach you are learning. Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love.

to perceive in sickness the appeal for health is to recognize in hatred the call for love.

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think of him you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself. Whenever two Sons of God meet, they are given another chance at salvation. Do not leave anyone without giving salvation to him and receiving it yourself. For I am always there with you, in remembrance of you.

El mundo perdonado se convierte en el umbral del Cielo porque mediante su misericordia podemos finalmente perdonarnos a nosotros mismos.

The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant.

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

To widen our inner circle and include others who are not like us, we must take a few risks, open our hearts and minds, change our mindset, and be willing to expand our thinking.

You literally want to welcome the times when you know he feels one way and you feel another, so you can practice holding on to what you feel and want anyway, and reaching to connect with him over the gulf between you. There

But in the same way that you can listen to a part of yourself without agreeing with it, you can listen to your partner, or indeed anyone, with compassion without giving up your own position. You gain both closeness and true power by acknowledging what someone else thinks and feels. An

If you actually want to have an impact on other people's feelings and behavior, there is absolutely nothing more powerful, paradoxically, than fully listening to and accepting how they feel, and letting them know it.

generosity, and graciousness. By keeping humility in mind, you rise above the challenges to build trust.

Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellow man and I will tell you how much you have loved them.

Can you continue to love a person regardless of such shortcomings? Maybe because you hope to save them? Or because you can't help it? Isn't that what love is all about?

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.

I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

I am not slighting intellect; but life is common to us along with poorer living things than ourselves. He who kills an animal, however lowly it may be, unless there is necessity, is an assassin.

There must be justice, not charity. Kindness is solitary. Compassion becomes one with him whom we pity; it allows us to fathom him, to understand him alone amongst the rest; but it blurs and befogs the laws of the whole. I must set off with a clear idea, like the beam of a lighthouse through the deformities and temptations of night.

Nous serons reconnus par les grandes douleurs.

It is an important experience to be in the presence of a thinking creature who is crying. A weak, broken creature who is crying creates the same impression as an omnipotent god whom one implores; for in its weakness and defeat it rises above the human condition.

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

If there is one point, it's humanity, it's life, the richness of life. The thing is simply to be sensitive.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.