Being Quote by Melody Gardot

You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The…

— Judith Hanson Lasater

Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point…

— Pema Chodron

“Being compassionate can be an exciting exercise of embracing life if you let it be.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

— Pema Chodron

When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement... To be compassionate is to move into the right here,…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.

— Lobsang Tenzin

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of…

— Brad Warner

ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION.

— Dalai Lama

I believe that you have to live a life that involves both courage and compassion.

— Eric Greitens

If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

— Steven Pinker