Quotes About Compassion

Making fun of fat people wont make you any thinner, and making fun of ugly people wont make you any prettier, and making fun of unsuccessful people wont necessarily make you successful, so leave the creatures to the One who created them, Instead if making fun of people work on improving YOURSELF.

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.

A person who embraces the desire to find wholeness within his own being, soon learns the importance of tending to relationships, caring for the planet, having compassion for humankind and accepting and tolerating differences among a diverse population of people.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Life is not a contest of who is better than who. When you drop the ego, you will see that we are all on the same side.

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

True happiness comes from the effort of making others happy. Give and share your love every day.

You can not find true happiness if you do not open your heart to others.

No one is born happy but all of us are born with the ability to create happiness so today make other happy and flash your sweetest smile.

I don't understand people that hate their lives enough to criticize the next person's... but not enough to fix their own.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice and show some humanity, care and dignity.

In the run towards being a better human being, we must recognize that other people's value systems are no less important than our own.

Everyday is a new chance to be a better person, to do good and correct past mistakes.

By opening wide the doors of our hearts we can broaden our own horizons and strengthen our belief in life.

Keep reminding yourself that you are human. You're entitled to make mistakes; everyone does. And you will learn from them and use those lessons to improve your life.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself; not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side as long as you are true to the best that is in you.

Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.

Sometimes, the most important thing you'll need to know, is how to be your own best friend.

Sometimes we fail at relationships because we don't have a good relationship with ourselves.