Quotes About Compassion

I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.

Maybe everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. If I can be perfect why can't you?

Given the chance, people will buy from people who care.

Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

But when the tables are turned and we feel wretched, that softens us up. It ripens our hearts. It becomes the ground for understanding others.

None of what we've learned seems very relevant when our lover leaves us, when our child has a tantrum in the supermarket, when we're insulted by our colleague.

Tonglen (sending-and-taking) practice also helps cultivate fearlessness. When you do this practice for some time, you begin to realize that fear has to do with wanting to protect your heart: you feel that something is going to harm your heart, and therefore you protect it.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn't mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we don't have to feel it's happening because we personally made the wrong move. In reality, however, when we feel suffering, we think that something is wrong. As long

The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself.

A question that has intrigued me for years is this: how can we start exactly where we are, with all our entanglements, and still develop unconditional acceptance

This is our link with all those who have ever loved. This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion.

elemental struggle is with our feeling of being wrong, with our guilt and shame at what we are.

How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We

When you find yourself slumping, that's the motivation to sit up, not out of self-denigration but actually out of pride in everything that occurs to you, pride in who you are just as you are, pride in the goodness or the fairness or the worstness of yourself—however you find yourself—some sort of sense of taking pride and using it to spur you on.

Hatred never ceases by hatred But by love alone is healed. This is an ancient and eternal law.

This book stresses repeatedly that it is unconditional compassion for ourselves that leads naturally to unconditional compassion for others.

This can be the value of our personal suffering. We can understand firsthand that we are all in the same boat and that the only thing that makes any sense is to care for one another.

What we hate in ourselves, we'll hate in others. To the degree that we have compassion for ourselves, we will also have compassion for others.

Unwise selfish people think only of themselves, and the result is confusion and pain. Wise selfish people know that the best thing they can do for themselves is to be there for others. As a result, they experience joy.

But fortunately for us, the soft spot—our innate ability to love and to care about things—is like a crack in these walls we erect. It's a natural opening in the barriers we create when we're afraid.