Quotes About Compassion

In their capacity to feel pain and fear, a pig is a dog is a bear is a boy.

Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.

We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.

My will for you is not harsh or unpleasant. It is gentle and perfectly tailored to your unique needs. Do not fear my direction. I am your heart's happiest guide.

While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.

if we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.

Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.

If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.

I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.

When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as 'them' but 'us'.