Quotes About Compassion

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

I think women need to be kinder to other women. I think once we realize that, shoulder to shoulder, walking in the same direction, we're the greatest force of nature…our destiny can change.

We must realize that our destiny is strongly linked to the destiny of the poorest on this planet.

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.