Quotes About Compassion

Above all, be compassionate. This is a stand against all evil and it opens your spirit.

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings, no matter how great the disparity. To withhold your scorn is already beautiful. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

Before parents blame their children, they should first look to how their daughters and sons were raised.

Niekados nesišaipyk iš žmogaus, kur? myli ir kuris dar labiau myli tave, ir niekados jam nepriekaištauk! Tikr? meil? patiri tik kart? per vis? inkarnacij?.

He belongs to that fraction of humanity which for centuries has made other fractions the objects of contempt and exploitation, then, when it saw the handwriting on the wall, set about to give them back their humanity.

Sing to the lonely, comfort the frightened, and awaken the love in sleeping hearts

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as is one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists.

There are many paths you can follow to forgiveness. that was one: Understand that your present is different from your past. Here's another: Focus on how it's hurt you not to forgive yourself and on what you need to be safe.

Knowing there's a reason for what happens also saves us from being filled with blame.

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Our capacity to forgive is our superpower.

the heaven to which Jesus points is the spaciousness within ourselves—one that makes room for those who threaten us, for those who are different, even for those who have betrayed us.

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Is it terrible to take solace in finding oneself better off than the huddled masses?

She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.

It occurred to me that everyone's story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

I pressed my lips against his ear and whispered again, It's not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told.

I moved his hair out of his face. I put my hand under his nose and felt gentle, even breaths. I pressed my lips against his ear and whispered again, It's not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told.

There was no apology in her eyes, no love or caring. But she saw me, I existed, and this lifted the beams off my shoulders. It takes so little.

People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving. It's like scoring the clay to make another piece of clay stick to it.

It's not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told.

What people in grief need most is to be compassionately accompanied, to feel that those who care about them are willing and able to tolerate the pain that they are in, to be there with them, to be present.