Top 1200 Love And Compassion Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that. All ethics and morality, and a sense of interconnectedness, come out of the act of paying attention.

When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself.

I have found that the greatest degree of inner peace comes from cultivating love and compassion.

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

People with hearts filled with love, peace, and compassion live in heaven.

Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness

True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.

We forget some of the oldest medicines we have are love and compassion, and they can be deployed by everyone.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

Our most effective response to terror and to hatred is compassion to unity, and it's love.

Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.

I don't think we find compassion. I think we become the space that compassion wants to live in.

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

So many things can be filtered through fandom - joy, compassion, love.

Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

My mother knows struggle and has taught me how to lead with compassion, the compassion that should be required for every representative on every level of government.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.

I love my ability to generate empathy and compassion within myself and others.

Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just one word of compassion will lessen their unhappiness. Don't add to their unhappiness.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.

Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.

O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

It seems that for some people the idea of compassion entails a complete disregard for or even a sacrifice of their own interests. This is not the case. In fact, you first of all have to have a wish to be happy yourself - if you don't love yourself like that, how can you love others?

The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to develop compassion towards my enemy, it may not benefit him directly, he may not even be aware of it. But it will immediately benefit me by calming my mind. On the other hand, if I dwell on how awful everything is, I immediately lose my peace of mind.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

In contrast, compassion manifests in us as the offering of kindness rather than withdrawal. Because compassion is a state of mind that is itself open, abundant and inclusive, it allows us to meet pain more directly. With direct seeing, we know that we are not alone in our suffering and that no one need feel alone when in pain. Seeing our oneness is the beginning of compassion, and it allows us to reach beyond aversion and separation.

There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.

An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We discuss life as equals, learn from each other and strive together to improve our lives.

I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.

Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.

I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

As the human race, let's continue to show love, compassion, and respect towards one another.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.

I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says 'Be still and know you are God.' What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love- the ability to love yourself so much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a mother loves a child, not trying to be someone.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive.

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules.