Quotes About Compassion

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

You practice loving God by loving another human.

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

We have to learn about love before we can learn about hate—otherwise everything goes to hell.

what is a compassionate heart? He tells us: 'It is a heart that burns for all creation, for the birds, for the beasts, for the devils, for every creature. When he thinks about them, when he looks at them, his eyes fill with tears.

How can we judge another person without imprisoning that person in his past acts? Without shackling him to one moment of his development?

I più bei regali sono quelli che si danno da cuore a cuore.

Camus] "The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.

La générosité est un geste sans limites que l'âme du monde ressent à chaque instant. La Confession de Massoud

La charité est un remède à l'angoisse. La Confession de Massoud

Les djihadistes ont massacré les innocents et entendent désormais tuer l'amour.

Lorsque le monde se mettra à jeter des fleurs et non plus des bombes, le combat de l'amour sera gagné.

Be a Human not a Homosapien

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

No entiendo a esta humanidad que degüella a los pueblos y perdona a los déspotas Robespierre

Likewise in our Zen sect, although we boast of having no words or phrases, we cannot help the profuse amount of literature because it expresses compassion or what we call "grandmotherly concern.

You cannot hate other people without hating your self.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.