Compassion Quotes - Page 21

• If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Heart, Buddhism

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• The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

  Mencius

  Two, Want, Way

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• He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.

  Porphyry

  Hate, Animal, Cruelty

  Porphyry (1823). “Select works of Porphyry; containing his four books On Abstinence from Animal Food; his treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures. Translated from the Greek by T. Taylor; with an appendix, explaining the allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses, by the translator”, p.126

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• People need to have compassion for others.

  Frank Bruno

  People, Needs, Compassion For Others

  "I've finally beaten my mental health demons" by Nick Owens, www.mirror.co.uk. April 3, 2011.

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• "Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

  Brigid Brophy

  People, Abuse, Sentimental

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• The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface --within consciousness. (As compared with the natural displays of compassion by other creatures that is not necessarily 'within consciousness. ') That's the only difference. We didn't create compassion, but it's flowing through us-or it could. The phase change that we're in seems, to me, to depend upon that comprehensive compassion unfurling in the human species.

  Brian Swimme

  Differences, Space, Phases

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• So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do, we learn. We learn to exercise true compassion, true kindness - or the thorns, if we let them, cause us to brood, to mourn over our trials. Then we plant the seeds of bitterness, hate, and ruin - weeds. We may reach up for the rose or down to the weeds...the weeds in life that tangle us, strangle us, and cause us to lose hope.

  James Michael

  Weed, Kindness, Hate

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• We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.

  Brené Brown

  Love, Practice, Age

  "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, August 27, 2010.

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• I am a dumb piece of meat
  and I rot everyday
  my flesh gives a rotting smell
  and people say it's the smell of life
  and they come to me
  and watch me rot
  and get happy and upset and annoyed and disgusted and maybe sometimes feel
  compassion
  but they don't realize they are rotting too.

  Daul Kim

  Smell, People, Giving

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• Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

  Biz Stone

  Animal, Wife, My Wife

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• To pine for an alternative past is a waste of energy. In the pristine world of your infinite spiritual self, there is no sin or negative energy. There is only compassion, learning, and unconditional love and forgiveness. Remind yourself and those around you of this fact. In the light of God, everything is healed and seen to be perfect.

  Stuart Wilde

  Spiritual, Unconditional Love, Past

  Stuart Wilde (1994). “Weight Loss for the Mind”

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• The life of Christ was a life charged with a divine message of the love of God, and He longed intensely to impart this love to others in rich measure. Compassion beamed from His countenance, and His conduct was characterized by grace, humility, truth, and love. Every member of His church militant must manifest the same qualities, if he would join the church triumphant.

  Ellen G. White

  Humility, Grace, Quality

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book II of IV”, p.1001, Lulu Press, Inc

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• All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.

  Saadi

  Pain, Essence, Suffering

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• Kindness manifests in a lot of ways, such as acts of compassion, helpfulness, empathy, forgiveness, and caring. These gestures kindle and ignite feelings of love.

  Jude Bijou

  Kindness, Caring, Empathy

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• In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

  Mark Foley

  School, Discipline, Catholic

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• Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Growing Up, Justice

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.86, Random House

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• What if someone hurts you with a weapon? Wait. Think it over. You probably feel angry. That's normal. But wasn't it the stick striking your body that hurt you? Can you be angry at the stick? Of course not. Should you be angry at the wielder of the stick? Wouldn't it make more sense to be angry at the hatred in the mind of the stick wielder? If you think about it, isn't the end of hatred in the world what you want most of all? Why, then, would you add to it by giving energy to your anger? After all, it will pass on its own if left alone, especially if you respond to it with compassion.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Hurt, Thinking, Giving

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.96, Ballantine Books

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• If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Practice, Guarantees, Path

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• Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us

  Zoran

  Enemy, Defeat, Mercy

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• If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.

  Robert Breault

  Perspective, Shyness, Ifs

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• What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Doe, Arms, Pity

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• If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.

  Milton Friedman

  Punishment, Drug, Atmosphere

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• Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to wishes and desires, but has to develop first a marked attitude of compassion. He should commit himself firmly to the willingness to take the effort to save every living creature.

  Sun Simiao

  Attitude, Giving, Effort

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• Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

  Arnold Bennett

  Art, Book, Reading

  1896 Journal entry,15 Oct.

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• By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you enter a room, and people will subconsciously feel it; they'll be prone to show greater kindness in return. That's how love makes things work better in our lives; it realigns the reactions of people and things around us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Attitude, Kindness, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 18, 2012

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