Quotes About Compassion

I never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins.

Today, I'm a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn't have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.