Quotes About Compassion

Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.

Modern research affirms what all religions have known: Service to others brings gifts to oneself. As the Dalai Lama put it, "If you're going to be selfish, be wisely selfish, which means to love and serve others, since love and service to others bring rewards to oneself

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird. Then, at the same time, you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.

We are trying to motivate Christians everywhere with the love of Christ for the lost and to help them sense the urgency we must have to reach unbelievers everywhere, before it is too late for them.

Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness: with skill, with compassion and with urgency.

Patience for me is a big thing. Patience with others. Patience with the way the world is evolving. I have a sense of urgency because I want to help out so much.

There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.

We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the terror of total obligation, thinking every act of injustice, every opportunity of ministry, and every urgent appeal are our responsibilities.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

My concern is: How on earth is anything more urgent than the lives of people in North Korean concentration camps?

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It's recognizing that the same humanity - the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security - exists in each of us, even if it's expressed uniquely.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

It is critical for us to cultivate consciousness and compassion towards our environment, create awareness, galvanize people, and build sustainable innovations for sustainable development.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?