Top 1200 Love And Compassion Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Compassion is a Shepherd, Always tending his herd.

Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes

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

Compassion doesn't have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

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

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

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

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.

Keep compassion close to your chest at all times.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

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

All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.

You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing of silence, fire has its cold half. I love you in order to begin to love you, to start infinity again and never to stop loving you: that’s why I do not love you yet. I love you, and I do not love you, as if I held keys in my hand: to a future of joy- a wretched, muddled fate- My love has two lives, in order to love you. -Sonnet XLIV

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

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

Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace. Once these qualities are developed within an individual, he or she is then able to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. This atmosphere can be expanded and extended from the individual to his family, from the family to the community and eventually to the whole world.

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

Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.

Compassion is a quality which impels one to perform sacrifices.

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

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

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

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

No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

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

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

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

Jesus says. "Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and love that keeps no score of wrongs. Quit projecting onto Me your own feelings about yourself. At this moment your life is a bruised reed and I will not crush it, a smoldering wick and I will not quench it. You are in a safe place." Brennan Manning. Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Why does God endow us with compassion?

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

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

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.

Everybody gets plagued by indifference and monotony. The truth is, there are concepts that are constantly being repeated in this world, since the beginning of time, but it doesn't seem like any of us have mastered them. So my advice is to keep going with the topic, which usually has to do with redemption, love, compassion, freedom, injustice, perversion, divinity, the diabolical... keep going with your thoughts, and your heart, and push them through to transformation.

We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values - looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous... It's the most superficial part of the American dream and who would know better than me? The only thing that's going to bring you happiness is love and how you treat your fellow man and having compassion for one another.

Life begins with love, is maintained with love, and ends with love. Right now, while we're alive, is the time to practice and express love. So please take care of your love. Love is capable of reaching so many people.

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

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

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

Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.

As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

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

Have compassion towards each other, including animals.

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

This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling.

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

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

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

Success is the ability to meet worthy goals, but it's also the ability to love and have compassion and the ability to get in touch with your creative center, to transform yourself toward more peaceful and just pursuits. I hope we redefine success. Otherwise, we'll see more of what we're already seeing - more aggression, more burnout, more Wall Street scandals, more war, more terrorism, more eco-destruction.

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

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.