Quotes About Compassion

human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.

Never place yourself above your fellow man, for we are all, each and every one of us, born of equal rights to the nourishing earth beneath and the wonder of the stars above.

I recall Ghandi said ultimately all things devolve into the political, but I'd argue that all things devolve into pro-people and anti-people. And I can pose the question, which side are you on?

Your hearing status doesn't make you a better person. Your humanity does.

Equality is humanity.

It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!

ALL human beings are equal no matter their race, social, political and economic status. No one can eat, excrete, sleep, bear your pains and die your death for you no matter your might.

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.

And she didn't judge nobody. She loved everyone equal- accountants, queers, musicians, she welcomed us all, said we were all idiots just the same.

When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves.

Tears don't make you a girl, but they sure make you human.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.