Compassion Quotes

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.