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Quotes About Compassion

I suppose I want to leave a word with you tonight, that seems to have been applicable and important to everyone lately. And that is remember Mercy, Love and Forgiveness, because this seems to be lacking, and causing and creating a lot of problems for people because it is so lacking. So remember that, first and foremost. And if you're already doing a good job at that, you think good for you! Step it up a bit! That's your challenge. As for me, I must work on these things always too!
~ Unknown
So remember, if you're feeling bitter or sorry for yourself about what you've done, and how much good you've accomplished or if you find yourself more than anyone else talking about the good you've done, you're doing it for the wrong reasons, because it should be the default.
~ Unknown
Now I don't know where you come from if you think that you deserve a trophy, or a parade or are even guaranteed a thank-you for doing what's good and what's right to others, and being kind to them and respectful but in life, you probably will not get these things. But that's not why we we ought to do good we ought to do good, not because it's special or extra, but because it's the minimum of what we owe to one another.
~ Unknown
If you find yourself to be a sort of an abrasive type of person, perhaps you might try to be gentle, because the truth is that gentleness and kindness are a lot more powerful than we are led to believe. And if you are like this, and people are telling you it doesn't work, don't listen to them do what you know is right.
~ Unknown
Singing the blues has always been about alleviating the blues, and that's apparent when you listen to them. Sure is nice to hear that someone else is, or has been where you are, or have been. Because we forget sometimes, that we're all in this together, and we have many, many similar experiences all the time, all across the world, in every age.
~ Unknown
I didn't enter into this to get any kind of affirmation or confirmation. I entered into this to see what I could do for other people to give them my sincerity, to give them my love and my care, to take a load off, to have a smile, to have a memory or two.
~ Unknown
Health and dignity are indissociable in human beings," he said at the ceremony. "It is a duty to stay close to victims and guarantee their rights." Urbani
~ Unknown
If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion.
~ Unknown
You know I believe that all children should have pets if it can possibly be managed, she wrote. I feel it is beneficial to give even the littlest children responsibility for something more helpless and in need of care than themselves. In this way selfishness is avoided, generosity is nurtured, and the heart's affections are exercised until they can bend and stretch to encompass all the world's creatures.
~ Unknown
And this is how otherwise reasonable people end up throwing rocks at one another,
~ Unknown
Cassawoof no teeth, no bite, sorry, sorry, sorry.
~ Unknown
For example, Nutsawoo.
~ Unknown
Maryrose Wood
~ Unknown
I am convinced that your spreading Sadako's feelings will lead to peace.
~ Unknown
Let's aim at the following at all times as we live our lives: Let us live this day to the fullest and speak only words of goodness, love, and care, refraining from any kind of negative words. If someone mouths negative words, let's have the good sense to change the topic instantly.
~ Masami Saionji
It is more important to give positive energy to others than to receive it.
~ Masami Saionji
Don't criticize your children, your husband, or your wife. You must not take in any prejudices, nor must you give any name to these prejudices: an idiot, a fool, a good-for-nothing, a lazy person, a liar, a beast! The person you call a name will eventually become that name. Even if you may think these thoughts a little, never throw such words directly at people. You should be thoroughly aware of the awesome energy a word carries.
~ Masami Saionji
Let us become the kind of people who can take pleasure in elevating others, rather than trying to place ourselves in a superior position by lowering others.
~ Masami Saionji
It's not too late. Promptly stop needless worrying. Instead of using all your energy for yourself, you need to turn your eyes more toward the love of mankind. Then you will no longer trouble yourself about foolish matters.
~ Masami Saionji
In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.
~ Unknown
Love and justice are like water and fire -- although both are necessary, they go together with difficulty. Compassion and wisdom are like heat and light -- although different, they work together in complementarity.
~ Unknown
While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.
~ Masaru Emoto
Love and gratitude" are the words that must serve as the guide for the world.
~ Masaru Emoto
The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts.
~ Masashi Kishimoto