Quotes About Compassion

We all fight our own wars, wars for which we'll be judged. Some of them we fight in the forests close to home, others in distant jungles or faraway burning deserts. We all fight our own wars, so maybe it's best not to judge, considering it's rare we even know why we fight so savagely.

Never forget, grandchildren, that we must always see all other people as human beings, worthy of respect.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, Put back thy sword, Peter. But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.

If you really want to help this world, what you really will have to teach is how to live in it.

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

Vegetarianism is the first turning away from life, because life lives on lives. Vegetarians are just eating something that can't run away.

Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from compassion with suffering, from understanding the other person.

We are all reflexes of the image of the Bodhisattva. The sufferer within us is that divine being.

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

The word compassion means literally suffering with. Of course compassion condones suffering in that it recognizes yes, suffering is life.

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

His idea of seeing the world was to see, not countries, but people; and to see them from as many angles as possible.

Don't worry about me. Go and enjoy yourself. I'll stay here and be miserable.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.