Top 1200 Love And Compassion Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.

Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

I have always had tremendous amount of patience, compassion and forgiveness.

The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.

Humanity's collective mission in the cosmos lies in the practice of compassion.

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

True compassion comes from free will by drawing empathy from within.

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in the universe!

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.

The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion

Compassion is subtler than Vitamin C, but both are real needs.

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion. But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of Love, in whatever form, to whatever end.

Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves--a force grounded in love and compassion. For some of us that's God, for others it's nature, art, or even human soulfulness. I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.

Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person's heart, and can cause the person to hate, to feel enraged. It is like a wound of the heart; the type of wounds that cannot go away with a kiss or a hug. The only thing that can make this great pain go away is love and compassion, another human heart to pull them out of this hell.

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

I believe that you have to live a life that involves both courage and compassion.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

Such sorrow— The cry of true compassion Sinks into my hard ego.

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, Which moves the world.

Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.

The most potent thing we can do is to bring more compassion online.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.

There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In the wide middle of the spectrum are all the ambiguous and tragi-comic goings-on of our species.

The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all.

Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings.

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Passion is like waves; it comes and goes. Compassion is the constant flow.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

It's great to be strong but strength is nothing without having compassion.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in contrition and compassion, and all sorrowing and moaning that we are not oned with our Lord. And all such that is speedful, it is Christ in us. And though some of us feel it seldom, it passeth never from Christ till what time He hath brought us out of all our woe. For love suffereth never to be without pity.

On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.

Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.

In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.