Top 1200 Human Compassion Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

One of women's greatest values is compassion.

Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.

Self-compassion is how we recover.

The heart with compassion is the temple of God.

If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human honors this life, has genuine spiritual fire and is full of honest love and compassion, it has to be right there, in the eyes. The Dalai Lama's eyes sparkle and dance with laughter and unbridled love. The Pope's eyes are dark and glazed, bleak as obsidian marbles. Pat Robertson's eyes are rheumy and hollow, like tiny potholes of old wax. Goldman Sachs cretins, well, they don't use their own eyes at all; they just steal someone else's.

Look upon yourself only with compassion.

The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Fraternity and compassion are written into nature's DNA.

Compassion is where peace and justice kiss

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

I can fool you because you're a human. You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we're fooled, the mind hasn't made a mistake. It's come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

You are joy, wisdom, peace, compassion, and love

Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.

Compassion and empathy are anathema to sports.

In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born-it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, 'Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning.

Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart.

Truth without compassion is Cruelty.

It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.

Shift from judgment to compassion to love.

We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once and for all. We have to proclaim that every human being is equal, in dignity, in freedom -and, as the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, we have to live in a spirit of brotherhood.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.

The hand that punched is the hands that gives compassion

While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.

The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever.

Marriage has given me the gift of compassion.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Compassion is concern of others' well being.

I'm all about preaching forgiveness and compassion.

The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.

Compassion is an essential element of love.

Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Journalists love to show their compassion.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made conditions, which, their human origins notwithstanding, possess the same conditioning power as natural things. whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. this is why men, no matter what they do, are always conditioned beings. whatever enters the human world of its own accord or is drawn into it by human effort becomes part of the human condition.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

Compassion seems to be the greatest power.

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

I believe in sympathy, compassion and forgiveness.

We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.