Quotes About Compassion

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.

Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a result of others' kindness.

You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.

We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

I want to be a compassionate soul, finding worth and beauty in the worlds around me and within me, attempting to sing a transcendent tune with my temporal position in this life.

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday.

Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.

To forgive is to set someone free.

How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people I care about in my life and that is where my values are and those are my riches.