Quotes About Compassion

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.

The river never drinks its own water. The tree never tastes its own fruit. The field never consumes its own harvest. They selflessly strive for the well-being of all those around them. —Mewari proverb, India

The two skills of the warrior are compassion and insight. Compassion is easy - it arises spontaneously from an open heart. Insight or discernment requires more skill. We have to choose our battles.

It's been said thousands of times, in all faiths and philosophies. Know thyself. What may be less clear in these wise expressions is the reason we learn to know ourselves: we develop a knowledge of self so that we can give up the self and serve others.

We can't change this world, but we can change ourselves so that we can be of service to this world.

Focus on serving others. ... No matter what is going on around us, we can attend to the people in front of us, to the issues confronting us and there, we offer what we can. We can offer insight and compassion. We can be present. We can stay and not flee. We can be exemplars of the best human qualities. That is a life well lived, even if we didn't save the world.

A Warrior for the Human Spirit is a decent human being who aspires to be of service in an indecent, inhumane time.

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

the infinite capacity of humans to wound one another without meaning or wanting to

Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.

The little things are most worthwhile-- quiet word, a look, a smile.

There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

You don't adopt a single child, you adopt the pain of the world. It's a litmus test of your incapacity.

Piangere insieme, per una coppia, è un minuscolo, emblematico accadimento... è il respiro dell'altro che crepa nella tua gola.

Persone benefiche che incontri per caso e ti viene voglia di abbracciare, perché ti sorridono dal fondo della loro esperienza umana e di colpo ti risarciscono dell'altra metà del mondo, quella accasciante delle persone rinserrate nella loro pozza di buio.

Hai sempre avuto questa capacità d'infilarti sotto la pelle degli altri…

Kako žalosten je lov na poražene živali.

Le voglio bene. È una di quelle persone un po' distratte che si fanno voler bene per forza.

Then I'll help Fionn with her refuge for lost frogs, or whatever she thinks she's doing. She seems to be adopting them.

What's to be done with all that you know and see? What do you do with so much meanness in this sorrowful world?

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed, that's all who ever have.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.