Compassion Quote by Michael Stone

I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without…

— Dalai Lama

True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that you are…

— Brad Warner

“being able to let go of hurting does not constitute a lack of compassion.”

— Jan Frazier

“Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental attitude based…

— Anonymous

“Non-attachment is not complacency. It doesn't imply a lack of caring and commitment. The philosophy of non-attachment is based in the understanding that holding…

— Lama Surya Das

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

— Radhanath Swami

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

— Steven Pinker

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

— Gary Zukav

Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles…

— John Dear

“The main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual,…

— George Orwell

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

— Prince