Compassion Quotes · Page 50

Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.

— Ben Parr

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

— Theodore Dreiser

“industry, compassion, humility, patience, honesty and courage.”

— Robin S. Sharma

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Mercy: “Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet.” Ben: “You killed someone?” Ben asked with interest

— Anonymous

There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

— Francis Schaeffer

Sharing can change the world; the smallest act of caring has the potential to turn a life around: sharing is caring.

— Anonymous

Worst feeling...caring for someone who you don't think feels the same way back…

— Anonymous

“Becoming an empathetic listener helps you to better understand how another person feels and why they communicate as they do.”

— Susan C. Young

What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?

— Anonymous

“You lie upon my heart as on a nest, Folded in peace, for you can never know How crushed I am with…

— Amy Lowell

Basketball is like life and life is like basketball. It's just a game. So lets play the best we can while we…

— Vlade Divac

There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

For every drop of hatred in the world, let us respond with a river of love. For every hateful comment uttered, let…

— Elias Atienza

We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal…

— Laurence Sterne

Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It's always with us. It always has been, and always will be. When it…

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

“One of the most robust and consistent findings in the research literature is that people who are more self-compassionate tend be less…

— Kristin Neff

“So much in a relationship changes when a partner is seriously ill, helpless yet blameless, and indefatigably needy. I felt old. [p.…

— Diane Ackerman

For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you…

— Mary Faustina Kowalska

It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much…

— Leonard Sweet

All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation…

— Dalai Lama

“Don’t you remember, my sister, when the Devil tried to tempt Saint Martin? Then the Fiend asked Saint Martin whether he dared…

— Sigrid Undset

Most people have settled for a wimpy grace. It's something that doesn't change their lives. There is a difference between grace and…

— Max Lucado

God is Always Available I admit that there are times That I am tempted to despair. Then God speaks in all His…

— Evelyn D Putnam

“Look down and show some mercy if you can. Look down, look down, upon your fellow man.”

— Victor Hugo

“Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.

— Radhanath Swami

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

— Nicole Kidman

Appearing to be a caring person is one of the greatest illusions of all time.

— Anonymous

“Through Compassion and Care we are compelled to random acts of kindness and demonstrations of love.”

— Jean Hamilton-Fford

We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.

— Brené Brown

We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.

— Lynn Grabhorn

“A mind without compassion is like the rose without the scent.”

— Ansul Noor

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

— Anonymous

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

— Anonymous

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

— Mike White

“Prayerlessness excludes God and leaves us at the mercy of our own circumstances.”

— Barbour Publishing

Love for me is innocence, honesty, compassion, trust, loyalty, a gentle summer breeze, sunshine, a great cuddle.

— A. J. McLean

It's either you stop caring or you stop loving. There's no in between.

— Janet Rocel

“It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal