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Quotes About Compassion

Fear trumps empathy.
~ Cindy Aime
To hate someone just because he doesn't presume like you is big blunder.
~ M.H. Rakib
The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.
~ Swami Dhyan Giten
Gentleman: one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
~ Anonymous
Society tends to pin women against each other, but we need to treat each other with kindness and compliment one another instead. Because women's voices are the strongest when they're together.
~ Normani Kordei
Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!
~ Francis of Assisi
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
~ Rene Descartes
There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.
~ Fela Kuti
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
~ Dalai Lama
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
~ Francis of Assisi
There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love
~ Sathya Sai Baba
I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
~ Chief Joseph
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
~ Jack Kornfield
Remember that all is One... and what you do to your neighbor, your friend or your foe, is a reflection of what you think of your Creator.
~ Edgar Cayce
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
~ Edith Stein
Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.
~ Ajahn Brahm
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
~ Sivananda
A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
~ Ramakrishna
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca