Quotes About Compassion

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently." —Pema Chödrön

So, if you're feeling down, confused, or shaken, read the Prayer of Saint Francis. If you're feeling elated, vindicated, or boastful, read the Prayer of Saint Francis. It's withstood the test of time, because it works.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.

Acts committed in the heat of passion as much as acts of heartfelt compassion have the power to disenchant

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Listening - It's an old-fashioned concept, I know".

He'd seen so much pain over the past few years that in some ways he'd become immune to thinking about what others felt. But when it came to his mother—his indomitable, invincible mother—he, too, hated the thought. She was the epitome of strength to him

How many cats do you have?" Carly couldn't help but ask. "Oh, only the three right now, the first three I showed you. These others, they've all gone over the Rainbow Bridge." "The Rainbow Bridge?" Carly asked. "Kitty heaven," Hazel whispered. "Oh. I'm sorry for your loss." Carly corrected herself. "Losses.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

Service is what life is all about.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

The true thinker is on the side of justice, of reason, of life.

There comes a time when you must get the care and love that maybe you shied from showing others.

True happiness is everyone's good, not personal comfort when many, too many live in poverty and despair.

You can love a person for walking the same roads as you every dusk or dawn. You can love a person a lot by teaching him to love people, thus himself. You can love someone like no one has ever loved or will ever love them, but you can't ask anyone to love you.

People are sometimes really different from what you first think. You have to give them a chance.