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Best Compassion Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day,…
- People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
- Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
- When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment;…
- If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.
- My actions are my only true belongings.
- Our own life has to be our message.
- Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am…
- Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at…
- It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.
- Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.
- The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering…
- Compassion is a verb.
- To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
- To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
- A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation…
- When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see…
- If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care…
- We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of…
- Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our…
- It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain,…
- The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will…
- When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your…
More Compassion Quotes
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. — Karen Armstrong
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. — James M. Barrie
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit. — Gary Bauer