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Quotes About Compassion

don't think so. Molly and Alex are sad sometimes. Sometimes they're not friends, and they get sad because of that. But I never get sad, even when people aren't friends with me.
~ Derek Landy
Nothing can be achieved without knowledge and yet everything can be achieved just through a pure heart.
~ Haidakhan Babaji
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
~ Theodore Isaac Rubin
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
~ T. S. Eliot
the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.
~ Anne Truitt
We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.
~ Swami Vivekananda
If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.
~ Dalai Lama
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.
~ Mira Nair
Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.
~ Carol Lynn Pearson
It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons.
~ Anthony Douglas
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
~ Mason Cooley
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.
~ Dalai Lama
I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.
~ Anderson Cooper
Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
~ Henri Nouwen
The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.
~ Norman Mailer
The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.
~ Ron Smothermon
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.
~ Joshua L. Liebman
We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.
~ Harold S. Kushner