Gautama Buddha Quotes About Compassion

• Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Inspiring, Buddhist

• When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Compassion, Animal

• Understand the suffering of worldly existence.
  Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness.
  Practice the path of meditation and compassion.
  Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Compassion, Practice

• Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mother, Children, Heart

• May I hold myself in compassion.
  May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Compassion, Suffering

• Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Compassion

• The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Kindness, Compassion

• O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Men, Compassion

• In compassion lies the world's true strength.

  Gautama Buddha

  Peace, Strong, Lying

• A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Heart

• For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Tolerance, World

  Gautama Buddha, Laurence-Khantipalo Mills (1976). “The splendour of enlightenment (sambodhipabhāsakathā: a life of the Buddha”

• Fill your mind with compassion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Compassion, Mind

• Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Work Out, Independence

• In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Water, Fruit

• If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Compassion, Evil

• All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Wish

• Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sorry, Compassion, Helping

• Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Others Happiness, Giving

• Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Perfect, Understanding

• Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Compassion, Treasure

• As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Wish, Good Wishes

• For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Compassion, Vegetarianism

• For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Compassion, Vegetarianism

• In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Children, Kindness

• Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.

  Gautama Buddha

  Powerful, Compassion, Views

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