Quotes About Compassion

When he realized Mother Teresa carries everything she owns in a small bag, he made an effort to simplify his own life. He says, "I try to remember what really counts—not money, or titles, or possessions, but the way we love others.

Four words: Be gentle with yourself. It turns out they are some of the wisest words anyone has ever shared with me.

Being gentle with yourself consists of realizing your faults, failings, and weaknesses, and dealing with them appropriately. God doesn't want us to beat ourselves up. He wants us to press on and try again.

One of the most important reasons to be gentle with ourselves is because if we cannot forgive ourselves, we will struggle to forgive others. And if we cannot forgive ourselves or others, we will resist even God's forgiveness. When we are gentle with ourselves, when we are patient with ourselves, we develop awareness, and awareness breeds compassion. And every person who ever crosses your path needs a little compassion.

Be gentle with yourself, be gentle with others, and never stop striving to be all that God created you to be: the-very-best-version-of-yourself.

When holiness emerges in any place and time, all men and women of good will are inspired.

If you have ever been on the receiving end of carlessness, you know it changes you.

We become more cautious with people, we are gentler with others, and we give them the benefit of the doubt, because we don't want to be on the giving end of carelessness.

Be gentle with the people who cross your path. If someone is grumpy or rude, if someone makes a mistake or does something wrong, give her the benefit of the doubt. You never know what she is carrying around inside.

There is a way to acknowledge the great suffering of others without diminishing our own suffering.

It was becoming very clear to everyone that one of the most powerful dynamics in relationships is trying to understand the other person's dreams, and helping them chase and fulfill those dreams.

every relationship improves when we are mindful of each other's dreams.

Lacking real compassion and charity for others, he would take pleasure in weeping and rejoicing with the fictional characters on the stage. His love was not real.

The moral he drew from the story of ancient slavery in 1836 was that Christianity's benevolent influence had almost imperceptibly and with the spirit of love abolished slavery.

Sometimes in life, it doesn't matter that you've just woken up on a floor. Or that you haven't brushed your teeth. Or that your hair is a mess and you're wearing the clothes you slept in. Sometimes you just have to be polite.

I pray all that you do brings love and brings light. . .

Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'

Be to her virtues very kind;Be to her faults a little blind;Let all her ways be unconfin'd;And clap your padlock—on her mind!

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

A civilization is judged by how it treats the vulnerable.

Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them.

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.