Top 1200 Understanding And Compassion Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

What I strive to do through my work, is to teach compassion. You need to have a lot of it, in this day and time, and it's lacking.

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

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers

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

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.

I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and when in the name of national security the US government both overtly and covertly aligns itself with the apartheid state and against heroic freedom fighters for racial justice ... Not only in 1962 but also keeping in mind that Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008, that kind of myopic understanding of national security has devastating consequences.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

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

The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.

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

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

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

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

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

The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

You have to look beyond your known limited experience. Politics should be based on compassion.

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

I think most important, you need to have the compassion and caring for helping to protect vulnerable people.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

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

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

The governor should be a public servant, who listens, brings people together and governs with compassion.

There exists a righteous unity between the temple and the home. Understanding the eternal nature of the temple will draw you to your family; understanding the eternal nature of the family will draw you to the temple.

Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.

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

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

Compassion knows that choosing the higher road in any situation is the most loving option for you.

Integrity, respect, compassion, and fairness become obstacles to people who think winning is everything

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

Of all the journeys to undertake, the one of self-compassion is one of utmost importance for long-term well-being.

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

One of the most important analytic tools when assessing an investment is an intellectually advantaged disparate view. This includes knowing more and perceiving the situation better than others do. It is also critical to have a keen understanding of what the market expectations for any investment truly are. Thus, the process by which a disparate perception, when correct, becomes consensus should lead to meaningful profit. Understanding market expectation is at least as important as, and often different from fundamental knowledge.

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Becaise I love God, I want to handle his truth with accuracy, clarity, and specificity. I want to build bridges of understanding from the wisdom of the Word to the details of people's lives. And because I love people, I will not be satisfied with lobbing grenades of general truth at them. Rather, through good questions, committed listening, and careful interpretation, I will enter their world with the understanding necessary to bring Christ's help to where it is really needed.

Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.

Regrettably, the media are seemingly incapable of mentioning the words 'compassion' and 'Trump' in the same sentence.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.

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

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

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Is it possible that there is something we don't fully understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which would change everything? Is it possible that there is something we don't understand about ourselves, and about who we are, the understanding of which would alter our lives forever for the better? Yes. The answer is yes.