Top 1200 Love And Compassion Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.

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

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

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.

Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.

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

Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love seeks to give rather than to get. Charity towards and compassion for others is a way to overcome too much self-love

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive.

The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.

Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.

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

Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing - resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

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

We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

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

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

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

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

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

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.

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

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

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

The life of Christ was a life charged with a divine message of the love of God, and He longed intensely to impart this love to others in rich measure. Compassion beamed from His countenance, and His conduct was characterized by grace, humility, truth, and love. Every member of His church militant must manifest the same qualities, if he would join the church triumphant.

Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.

A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.

Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action.

Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.

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

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

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

I just believe as a Christian, we are to show love; we are to show compassion to people, not to point the finger, not to do this, but to do this - to love them, to welcome them, to embrace them.

In the eyes of God, a child on the other side of the border is no less worthy of love and compassion than my own child. We - we can't distinguish between them in terms of their worth and their inherent dignity and that they're deserving of shelter and love and education and opportunity. We can't isolate ourselves. We can't hide behind a wall.

The Secret's message is to let go of all blame because it only destroys you, and to move forward with hope, love, compassion and kindness.

Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it... You can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.

It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.

When love and compassion fills your heart, you find newness in every moment, and life becomes a celebration.

Sentient compassion is a must; it has to be developed in order to alleviate cruelty and thoughtless acts. That won't happen if you develop a sense of compassion. You'll have that connectedness, that knowing that the same life that's in you is in every other being, so you're not going to mishandle life.

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

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.

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

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is a principle inherent in both women and men. It is an attitude of the mind. It is love - and that love is the very breath of life. No one would say, 'I will breathe only when I am with my family and friends; I won't breathe in front of my enemies.' Similarly, for those in whom motherhood has awakened, love and compassion for everyone are as much part of their being as breathing.