Quotes about compass
compassion self causes
Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior. Mark Victor Hansen
compassion perfect unions
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union. J. Michael Straczynski
compassion people lifting
Spend your life lifting people up, not putting them down. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
compassion people empathy
It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent. Paul Bloom
compassion animal differences
People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, and some do not care at all. There are cultural differences.
compassion feelings moments
What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness. Matthew Fox
compassion might weakness
Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.
compassion people unhappy
Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly. Martha Beck
compassion anxiety feelings
No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties. Paul Goodman
compassion people soul
She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs. Pat Conroy
compassion law cruelty
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
compassion hair people
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair, crooked toes. I support those who have done nothing large. Naomi Shihab Nye
compassion regimes harder
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder. Nadine Gordimer
compassion way columbine
I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same. Rachel Scott
compassion understanding needs
By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion. Nhat Hanh
compassion enemy suffering
When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.
compassion understanding poverty
Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.
compassion mind suffering
Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.
compassion helping chance
Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion.
compassion true-power understanding
Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.
compassion hatred violence
All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding to violence with violence resolves nothing; it only escalates violence, anger and hatred. It is only with compassion that we can embrace and disintegrate violence. This is true in relationships between individuals as well as in relationships between nations.
compassion dwelling trying
We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.
compassion meditation understanding
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
compassion enemy impossible
To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.
compassion verbs
Compassion is a verb.
compassion suffering able
A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.
compassion our-world able
In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
compassion blessing relief
Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion. Noah Webster
compassion matter mercy
If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics. Gerald R. Ford
compassion trying quality
Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it? Jiddu Krishnamurti
compassion cry
I cry for those not yet dead. Frank Herbert
compassion silence meditation
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl. Guru Nanak
compassion
The measure of a society is its compassion. Kristin Hannah