Quotes About Compassion

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

True giving happens when we give from our heart.

What you do for your Self, you do for another. What you do for another, you do for the Self. This is because you and the other are one. And this is because...there is naught but You.

The way to reduce the pain which you associate with earthly experiences and events-both yours and those of others-is to change the way you behold them.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

We have such a law: If you forgive, it means that God has forgiven you; but if you do not forgive your brother, it means that your sin remains with you.

Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.

I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.

He has a heart of gold - only harder.

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

Anger, hatred, fear, is very bad for our health

Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

I don't stand back and judge - I do.

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.

Understanding is the other name of love. If you don't understand, you can't love.

Live a life that transcends your own!

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.