Compassion Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

  Karen Walker

  Play, Piano, Giving

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• The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Self

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• Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sparrows, Feels, Storks

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• Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

  Pliny the Elder

  Miscarriage, Son, Thinking

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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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• Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mean, Exercise, Opportunity

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• A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  True Friend, Heart, People

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• One man starving puts a crimp in my evening.

  Woody Allen

  Men, Evening, Starving

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• The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

  Mencius

  Kindness, Maturity, Plant

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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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• 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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• Happy Wednesday! Practice compassion. Lift others. Learn to encourage rather than criticize. You'll feel better when you help others feel better.

  Tracey Edmonds

  Feel Better, Helping Others, Practice

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• Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.

  Martin Pistorius

  Kindness, Thinking, Dignity

  "'I was like a ghost': Man recalls years awake but trapped in unresponsive body" by Kate Snow, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

  Alice Walker

  Balance, Cruelty, Equal

  Alice Walker (1997). “Possessing the Secret of Joy”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

  Paul Tsongas

  Memorial Day, America, Excellence

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• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  Peter Abelard

  Son, Two, Suffering

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• In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Mind, Atheism, Crowds

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• Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

  Kafu Nagai

  Empathy, Principles, Artistic Creation

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• It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the world. It is our personal discovery that pain can be acknowledged, even held lovingly, that enables us to look at the pain around us unflinchingly and feel compassion being born in us. We need to start with ourselves.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Pain, Discovery, Suffering

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.84, Ballantine Books

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• Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in a feast of spiritual food? How about a plate full of prayer? Or maybe a few hours of succulent self-reflection. Perhaps a piping-hot selection of spiritual literature, served by the side of a lake or under a tree, would satisfy your spiritual hunger. Can you imagine feasting for a few hours on spiritually uplifting music? What about some forgiveness à la mode, topped with compassion? You cannot imagine how much your spirit would enjoy it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Prayer

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• A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.

  David A. Cooper

  Spiritual, Kindness, Simple

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