Quotes About Compassion

Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.

I'm more concerned about helping humanity through my art

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

Good heart does not produce science or even art, but knowledge does, intellect does and absolutely expertise does.

more to be a human being with

It is not about the glory of the human form more about being human.

Act of giving something to others is an art of flowering your heart.

You are my other self

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

Artist is not human, but humanity.

There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.

We all do better, when we all do better.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own.

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?

Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.