Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Joshua Heschel

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

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.

Our spirit is to be considerate and have compassion for people. It's a social responsibility.

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Our message is one of sympathy and compassion. This takes human compassion to respond to this kind of devastation. We are in this for the long run and there are no easy fixes.

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't two times that. It just shows the compassion of the people here to folks they don't even know in another part of the country.

Alice Walker

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

Albert Camus

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Annie Besant

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

Annie Lennox

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Albert Schweitzer

If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.

Albert Schweitzer

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

Debbie Ford

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

Debbie Ford

Compassion allows us to understand that, as citizens of the planet, we’re all in this together and that in order to ensure our survival we must hold and cultivate a new and larger vision of what’s possible for ourselves and for the human race as a whole.

Dylan McDermott

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

Dorothy Gilman

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

Dalai Lama

When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.

Dalai Lama

The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.

Dalai Lama

One scientist had discussions about love and compassion. Usually, he felt irritation. After our meeting, for some months, anger never come.

Dalai Lama

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.

Dalai Lama

Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.

Dalai Lama

So long as space remains So long as sentient beings' Suffering remains I will remain In order to help, In order to serve.

Dalai Lama

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

Dalai Lama

On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.

Dalai Lama

Compassion seems to be the greatest power.

Dalai Lama

I always believed in love, compassion, and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

Dalai Lama

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

Dalai Lama

Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.

Dalai Lama

The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength.

Dalai Lama

To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.

Dalai Lama

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

Dalai Lama

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.