Quotes About Compassion

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

In tough times, the people of West Virginia have always stepped up to help a community in need.

As people's lifestyles have improved, they've become more and more sensitive toward animals. It's becoming a universal value, like Western classical music.

I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.

The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to get off on western tradition without this bloody spectacle. Dude, it's the Old West, not ancient Rome!

When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.

No one has it easy, and to some degree, everyone feels lonely and powerless, which may cause them to make hurtful decisions.

We need all people, everyone, to think for themselves, to think critically, to think abstractly, to develop their powers of empathy.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.

Faith is about offering emotional and practical help to your neighbours while expecting nothing in return: you do so simply because you think it's needed.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

If you love your neighbor and are compassionate, are you automatically a Christian? Practicing present-moment awareness does not entail joining any religion or accepting any belief system.

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.

I have a fairly pragmatic view on all those bullies that came before, because everybody makes you who you are now.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.

I'd say most definitely with my faith, there's no room for me with it. It's always about other people. It's always about loving on other people and giving praise where praise is due.

Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.

We pray that the Lord may help us to produce His light in ourselves, even in dark days, so that we might be light for others, illuminating the world and life in this world.