Top 1200 Human Compassion Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Sen. Akaka's care, empathy and compassion were evident to everyone who knew him.

You have to look beyond your known limited experience. Politics should be based on compassion.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

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

When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.

The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.

'Laramie' is a way in to replacing any hate in your heart with understanding, compassion, and acceptance.

Integrity, respect, compassion, and fairness become obstacles to people who think winning is everything

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

Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

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

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.

With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no affect on your attitude.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

The governor should be a public servant, who listens, brings people together and governs with compassion.

Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

David Eckman is a man you can trust... His teaching resonates with God's wisdom and compassion

The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

She [Hillary Clinton] exudes leadership, confidence and - importantly - empathy, compassion, and understanding.

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a President moves free of human entanglement, human needs, human illusions; not even a President can be independent of those around him.

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

Spirituality, a defended person has no room for love or compassion-he is too busy defending himself.

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

Everyday, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals, but helps the environment.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."

Eliminate laws and dogmas that hinder the progress of the world and develop the heart in the form of compassion.

For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

As a human, you don't have to be too conscious of your movement. I think it's tougher playing a robot than a human, and even tougher playing a robot who begins showing traces of being a human.

One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who has made men and women in His own image that they have a unique dignity of life as human beings. Human life then is filled with dignity, and the state and humanistically oriented law have no right and no authority to take human life arbitrarily in the way it is being taken.

You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.

The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.