3,644 Quotes About Compassion

Clearly the current system has failed. Why not give peace and compassion a chance? There is a terribly tragic folly behind desires for world peace, while still demanding the mass murder of animals for food.

The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to—a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves.

I believe that compassion is the key to our evolution as a species.

Nothing can come of nothingness, the granthi had said. So to know joy, compassion, sympathy - to feel love - means also to have in the world their opposites.

Forgiving others is something we give ourselves every day.

Well-being, or wholeness, implies integrity and harmony between all existing elements, providing freedom for the whole.

In my experience, most people are actually seeking recovery from the monotony and anxiety of qualitative repetition. This applies to body, emotions and mind. And that monotony and anxiety involves inertia just as much as over-use, meaning inertia in some areas and over-use in others.

We live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance.