Top 1200 Human Compassion Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do

The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

I remind myself of the power of thought and how it's my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel compassion.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

One must love the mirror in the face of truth, only if one loves the outlook of your inner compassion.

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.

What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

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

Oxytocin is lauded for how it promotes warmth, generosity, social bonding, cooperation, trust, and compassion.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion.

A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

Compassion, caring, teaching, loving, and sharing your gifts, talents, and abilities are the gateways to power.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

What I want in my life is compassion a flow between myself and others based on mutual giving from the heart.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.

The real question today is not when human life begins, but, what is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law - the same right we have.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to be allowed to criticise and form opinions. Human dignity is the right to health, work, education and social welfare. Human dignity is the right and the practical possibility to shape the future with others. These rights, the rights of democracy, are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.

Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.

When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.

When love overflows and is expressed through every word and deed, we call it compassion. That is the goal of religion.

If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.

We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

I think human beings are drawn to other human beings who are beautiful or handsome. I do think that it probably helps to sway people towards liking somebody, if they're handsome or if they're fit or if they dress good. It probably shouldn't be that way but it's almost like human nature.

Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.

As we give the gifts of compassion and humility, our lives become demonstrations of the truth of God's Word.

When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.

These are 8- and 12-year-old kids. It doesn't matter how they got here. It is time to show a little compassion