Famous Quotes & Sayings

Radhanath Swami

Lord's love manifests in this world as compasssion.

Radhanath Swami

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

Radhanath Swami

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

Radhanath Swami

Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.

Radhanath Swami

Compassion is an essential element of love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

Liam Neeson

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share,

Lennox Lewis

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

Terry Pratchett

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.

Shunryu Suzuki

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Laura Schlessinger

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

Pema Chodron

we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.

Pema Chodron

In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

Pema Chodron

Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

Pema Chodron

Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.

Pema Chodron

Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at.

Pema Chodron

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

Pema Chodron

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

Pema Chodron

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

Pema Chodron

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

Peter Coyote

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

Joss Whedon

Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.

Henry B. Eyring

The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need.

Henepola Gunaratana

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

Mahatma Gandhi

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Mallory Ortberg

You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to deal with an uncomfortable, painful moment. You should be with a person capable of great compassion and understanding.

Morarji Desai

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.

Milarepa

In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . . . The piling up of wealth is the piling up of others' property; what one thus storeth formeth but provisions for one's enemies... I wash off human scandal by devotion true; and by my zeal, I satisfy the Deities. By compassion, I subdue the demons; all blame I scatter to the wind, and upward turn my face.

Kevin Rudd

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

Lupita Nyong'o

You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.

You can't teach compassion by modeling callousness, and you can't teach respect for the law if you are showing disrespect.

Lisa Stone

It is not about sexuality that is important to most people who care, it is what we do for our community and our family, our friends and just human compassion for others that matter in the world we live in daily.

John Selden

If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.