Top 1200 Human Compassion Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

I do have a lot of care, concern, and compassion for disadvantaged people.

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

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

I believe that animals are on the planet so that we can know love and compassion.

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION.

Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

Keep compassion close to your chest at all times.

At its core, government welfare is predicated on a false compassion.

In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood and suffering of the defeated enemy. Nowadays, it is much more terrifying because a person in an office can push a button and kill millions of people and never see the human tragedy that he or she has created. The mechanization of war, the mechanization of human conflict, poses an increasing threat to peace.

After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

I'm passionate about stories that have humanity, compassion and humor.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.

Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others

Yoga has given me more compassion for my imperfections.

Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.

I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Have compassion towards each other, including animals.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.

I have come to understand that if we hope to build a better world, we must be guided by the universal human values that emphasize the kinship of the human race - the sanctity of human life and freedom, peace between nations, honesty and truthfulness, regard for the rights of others, and love of one's fellows.

You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.

Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

Compassion is a Shepherd, Always tending his herd.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Understanding transforms, it does not sublimate. If you understand, anger disappears and the same energy becomes compassion. Not that you sublimate: anger simply disappears, and the energy that was involved, invested in anger, is released and becomes compassion. When you understand hate, hate disappears and the same energy becomes love. Love is not against hate -- it is absence of hate.

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.

Compassion is a quality which impels one to perform sacrifices.

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

All human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being. Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.