3,644 Quotes About Compassion

If your grocery store has a healthy food section, what is the rest of the store?

Love seeketh not Itself to pleaseNor for itself hath any care,But for another gives its easeAnd builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.'So sung a little Clod of ClayTrodden with the cattle's feet,But a Pebble of the brookWarbled out these metres meet:'Love seeketh only Self to please,To bind another to Its delight,Joys in another's loss of ease,And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

Peace, harmony and brotherhood are the marks of humanity. They are the heart of every religion. They are the ultimate weapons against all powerful weapons.

Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?

You can choose a love and a life that does not break you. You can claim a softer beauty and a kinder want. Even your animal hunger can soften its rough edges and say a full-throated yes to what is good and kind and holy. Know that insanity is not a prerequisite for passion and that there is another pathway to your art, one that does not demand your pain as payment for its own becoming. Love, it doesn't have to hurt anymore.

Compassion is not weakness.

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.

True happiness lies in being compassionate and appreciating the world and our circumstances, rather than being coldhearted and greedy. We often realize too late that our favorite moments are those spent simply with the people we love. In seeing the miracles that unfold around us every day. Eventually we all come to understand that our happiness is derived from being present in the moment. Why wait until the end of your life to discover this Truth?

Simply put, meditation is the path to clarity, compassion, and a path of wisdom leading to the eradication of suffering.