Quotes About Compassion

It's always the ones who wring their hands demanding that someone defend, protect or educate the children, who are the most ruthless murderers of childhood.

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.

Rumi tells of Solomon's practice of building each dawn a place made of intention and compassion and sohbet (mystical conversation). He calls it the "far mosque." Solomon goes there to listen to the plants, the new ones that come up each morning. They tell him of their medicinal qualities, their potential for health, and also the dangers of poisoning.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock someone down to feel tall.

A sense of share is not a bad moral compass.

de que o objetivo do ambientalismo não tem a ver com tentar usar menos, mas antes com tentar ser mais. Não tem a ver com beneficiarmos de menos coisas, mas antes com darmos aquilo que de melhor há dentro de nós. O ambientalismo não tem a ver com o ambiente. Tem a ver com as pessoas. Tem a ver com o sonho de uma vida melhor para as pessoas.

I made the mistake of thinking that condemning other people's misdeeds somehow made me virtuous.

I made the mistake of thinking that condemning other people's misdeed somehow made me virtuous.

Cruelty could be designed-out. It's advertising is deficient.

The beauty of Radical Forgiveness lies in the fact that it does not require us to recognize what we project. We simply forgive the person for what is happening at the time. In doing so, we automatically undo the projection, no matter how complicated the situation. The reason for this is simple, in that the person represents the original pain that caused us to project in the first place. As we forgive him or her, we clear that original pain.

Somchai Asanajinda says as long as your heart can still beat for one, it can always beat for two.

A GOOD LIE IN THE RIGHT PLACE CAN MAKE UP FOR ANY NUMBER OF WRONGS.

no burdens were shed – they were merely passed from the shoulders of one to those of another.

It is all my fault! But the blind man when he stumbles over a stone, curses the stone, not the blindness that made him stumble. 17

It is difficult to imagine love without generosity, without a desire to make some sacrifices. To-day

J?dru?! Ran twoich niegodnam ca?owa?.

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Der Lebensschutz des potentiellen Opfers soll mehr wiegen als die Menschenwürde des potenziellen Täters.

Christian ethics maintains that the whole man must be good in intellect and will, heart and conscience. To do good is a duty and a desire, a task and a privilege, and thus the work of love. Love is therefore the fulfilling of the law.