Famous Quotes & Sayings

The world saw this tidal wave of disaster and now they're going to see a tidal wave of compassion.

Alan Cohen

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

Alyssa Sutherland

When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.

Rachel Scott

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.

Nhat Hanh

By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.

Nhat Hanh

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.

Nhat Hanh

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

Nhat Hanh

Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.

Nhat Hanh

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.

Nhat Hanh

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

Nhat Hanh

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.

Nhat Hanh

We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.

Nhat Hanh

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Nhat Hanh

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.

Nhat Hanh

Compassion is a verb.

Nhat Hanh

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.

Nhat Hanh

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

Noah Webster

Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.

Patti Smith

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

Patti Smith

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

Moby

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

Karl Marx

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Jules Verne

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

Paul Bloom

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

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.

Matthew Fox

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

Matthew Fox

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.

Martha Beck

Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

Paul Goodman

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.

Pat Conroy

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.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

Kristin Hannah

The measure of a society is its compassion.

Milton Friedman

If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.