Compassion Quotes · Page 132

I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.

— Wayne Coyne

“Forgiveness is not a miscarriage of justice but the birth of compassion”

— Dan Wasonga

“The fundamental question is how to develop and maintain compassion.”

— Dalai Lama, The

“My past, O Lord, to Your mercy; my present, to Your love; my future to Your providence.”

— Anonymous

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

— Dorothea Dix

If you're drowning out in the waters and you can't stay afloat. Ask Hashem for mercy and he'll throw you a rope.

— Matisyahu

What I want in my life is compassion a flow between myself and others based on mutual giving from the heart.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as…

— Abraham Maslow

“You mean you are now my slave without illusions, and for that reason you shall feel the weight of my foot without…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

“I believe in the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist of doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to…

— Thomas Paine

If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change…

— Chade-Meng Tan

“Loving ourselves points us to capacities of resilience, compassion, and understanding within that are simply part of being alive. —S”

— Kristin Neff

A lot of times people do spiritual practice just for themselves. I try to turn that a little bit. I try to…

— Sakyong Mipham

Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the…

— Ram Dass

Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may…

— John A. Lejeune

“Sometimes, all we need is just one person who believes in us and who will never give up on us. Someone who…

— Jocelyn Soriano

I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way…

— Kate McKinnon

The suffering that food animals undergo, the suffering of those who eat them and profit by them, the suffering of starving people…

— Will Tuttle

Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death.…

— James A. Garfield

“The man who never smiles Drags his nets through the deep And we are gathered To gape in the drowning air Beneath…

— Steven Erikson

“Cancer, he’d said near the end, is the great equalizer. It doesn’t care who you are or what kind of salary you…

— Kristine Wyllys

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the…

— Anonymous

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

— Harry Browne

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

— Mark Victor Hansen

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

— Joseph Campbell

“Be kind. Be generous. Be compassionate. The more we give, the more we receive.”

— Isabella koldras

We have to live at a higher vibration, caring for humanity, caring for your brothers and sisters.

— Skip Marley

“I'm always a slave to my thoughts, always at the mercy of what I'm not, what I can't be.”

— Louise Gornall

“When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it’s impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else.”

— Richard Carlson

“Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

— Cesare Pavese

Passion is what pulls us into love. Compassion is what keeps us feeling the love.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Depression is the feeling that everything is a waste of time. Joy is KNOWING that nothing in this Life is a waste.”

— Raymond D. Longoria Jr

Do not ever own their future depended on it, which is at the mercy of others

— Mak_786

Respect other people's feelings. It may not mean anything to you but it may mean everything to them.

— Anonymous

Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.

— Laozi