Compassionate Quotes

518 quotes by 372 authors

One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing. — Nhat Hanh
Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness… — Noah Levine
The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from… — Noah Levine
Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to… — Homer Hickam
There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward… — Dogen
We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the… — Caroline Myss
I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to… — Dalai Lama
I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the… — Robert Kennedy
My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding. — W. Eugene Smith
I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude… — Auberon Waugh
Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people,… — Geraldo Rivera
This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war,… — Geraldo Rivera
Can you be compassionate even to those who have no compassion? If so, there is no finer karma that you can create. — Gary Zukav
What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats people like commodities.… — Ralph Raico
I have therefore come to the opinion that the most reasonable recourse for the humanization of society and its institutions is to abandon them and… — Manitonquat
Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We… — Vicki Robin
And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves,… — Desmond Tutu
I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful o so sweet,… — John Dufresne
When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you… — Ajahn Brahm

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