“A seed cannot grow in stone. Compassion is the fertile soil where life grows.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire — Confucius Copy Share Image
Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
“We can all benefit by learning to express and meet out physical needs in a loving, caressing and compassionate way” — David Bresler Copy Share Image
Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“No matter what the situation may be, the right course of action is always compassion and love.” — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
In this earth, in this immaculate field, we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion, except for love. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Whatever we focus our attention on will expand in our experience. If we focus on cultivating the higher qualities of love, compassion,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm glad I'm funny. I'm glad I make people happy, because that's very important. But I'm proud to be known as a… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
When you get in the water with a wild animal, you're essentially giving yourself to that animal because, as humans, we're quite… — Paul Nicklen Copy Share Image
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Dont base your relationship just on sex!!!! there is more to a relationship then sex u need compassion, trust, compromise and whatever… — Kevin Mccarty Copy Share Image
“Non-violent resistance to evil is a quintessential element of the character of a real human being. If someone does wrong to me,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Music has to be recognized as an…agent of social development in the highest sense, because it transmits the highest values - solidarity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his clothing, I will be healed.” And sure enough, as soon as… — Lisa Harper Copy Share Image
How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action...If we do not act,… — Martin Luther King Jr. 1967 Copy Share Image
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The moment you stop caring is the moment when things get better dont waste your time trying to please others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“Night becomes day only when the sun appears; dark man becomes good man only when the compassion appears!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“I care about you. More than I feel safe caring. You make my heart do some really weird things” — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
“Mercy to the needy is a loan to Got), and Got) pays back those loans in full.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Helping others is no corresponding replacement if you are really have compassion. — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
People will never understand the decisions you make, unless they have experienced how hard it is to be in your place. — Anonymous Copy Share Image