Quotes About Compassion

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.

Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.

A person all wrapped up in themselves makes for a mighty small package.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

To those who are given much, much is expected.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers