Compassion Quotes · Page 77

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

— Francis Schaeffer

To embrace humanism is to embrace the concept that caring for our fellow human beings is our highest calling.

— Sean Faircloth

...it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability

— Sally Brampton

Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive.

— Dalai Lama

“Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?”

— Ali Smith

I love my ability to generate empathy and compassion within myself and others.

— Asia Kate Dillon

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

— Anonymous

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

— Ram Dass

Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment,…

— Polly Toynbee

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who…

— Dalai Lama

I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because…

— Paul Bloom

“Compassion is a manifestation of the relationality that binds people together in community and that constitutes the very essence of their humanity.”

— Christopher D. Marshall

“It’s amazing how much more mercy I give to people who struggle with sins I understand. The further their sin is from…

— Michael Cheshire

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.

— Queen Victoria

Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry…

— Rukmini Devi Arundale

There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would…

— Dalai Lama

“If you can manage to see yourself from the outside and accept yourself as a vulnerable organism within the biosphere, rather than…

— Andreas Weber

“And if we dare to look into those eyes, then we shall feel their suffering in our hearts. More and more people…

— Jane Goodall

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The…

— John Rawls

The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes…

— Sargent Shriver

“No, they're not starbusts." He continued to touch each mark. "They're angel kisses. It's like angels kissed your hands all over." His…

— Angie Stanton

I heard the term "mamisma" when describing Speaker of the House [Nancy] Pelosi, how she was speaking from that place which is…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“IV.The wounded surgeon plies the steelThat questions the distempered part;Beneath the bleeding hands we feelThe sharp compassion of the healer's artResolving the…

— T.S. Eliot

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .

— Dalai Lama

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.

— Joseph Conrad

“The world truly is my oyster, the difficulty is... I haven't discovered the ALL of the tools to shuck it yet.”

— Raymond D. Longoria Jr

We will be fair, just, and compassionate to all, but our greatest compassion must be for our American citizens.

— Donald Trump

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

— Robert E. Lee

I would lose my way again, be led hopelessly astray again, just so I can pray again...For the mercy in you.

— Depeche Mode

Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.

— Anonymous

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.

— Angela Ahrendts

If people knew the reasons for my fear they would be able to understand my pain.

— Nishan Panwar

“If you’re treating people poorly then you're not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted.”

— Shannon L. Alder

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

— Rooney Mara

I will not allow other's inability to be loving and caring to interfere with my ability to be loving and caring.

— Anonymous

One of the hardest things to do is to stop caring about someone because the stopped caring about you.

— Anonymous

After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.

— Stephenie Meyer

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

— Honore de Balzac

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

— Joan Halifax