Compassion Quotes (648 Quotes)

Many times I'm overwhelmed by the compassion of the city,

In the center of compassion is the place of union, Inside the Mysterious Gate is the realm of yao-chi. Lock up the monkey and ape so they cannot run away. Tame the wild horse so that it cannot get out of control. Grasp the opening of the Gate and when cultivation is complete, The beam of golden light will penetrate your entire being.

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

I don't think he has ever suffered from want in his entire life, and so the matter of poverty and compassion is far from his heart and also from his policy,

He's very strategic, has a lot of compassion for children, and we just love him,

If I live to be 97, we will never forget the kindness of the people of Mississippi, the people of Jackson , and people of this hotel,

They're just kind of helping out of the kindness of their hearts, to contribute to knowledge.

Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Your country is very close to my heart now. I, for one, will never forget the compassion expressed by Canadians in so many different ways.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness.

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

If he comes back, there's going to be a media circus at the church. There will be a media circus at the gravesite. The focus will be taken away from the poor mother and baby. Out of compassion for them, he might not come back and make his peace at the gravesite later. It's a case you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

They not only teach children about responsibility, compassion and caring, they have been used in a host of learning applications in math and writing.

It wasn't the Mayflower. It wasn't the Love Boat. But it brought us to this magical country and reunited our family, so it was beautiful to me, ... Faith, hard work and the kindness of new friends carried my family forward and made it possible for me to become the first Asian-Pacific-American woman to serve in the Cabinet of a president of the United States.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantageand seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

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.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

a sign from the pope that he'd like to be close to you and show his compassion.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatars message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

It was a joy and privilege to stand with so many people who support this woman and her cause. Even in a steady rain with umbrellas in one hand and candles in the other, Alaskans came together to show compassion and concern for a fellow citizen from afar. If only every day we would join together and support one another, perhaps we wouldn't need to be at war. Compassion and kindness can be contagious wouldn't that be a joyful epidemic to witness

All peace comes by Your Kindness, God.

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings this is the method of Tao.

While no one is expected to leap tall buildings in a single bound, our aspiring heroes will be tested on their courage, integrity, self-sacrifice, compassion and resourcefulness - the stuff of all true superheroes.

I once heard an adult ask another adult if her daughter was in STAND. One adult responded by saying, she was until her daughter was asked to bring in a roll of toilet tissue. The mom said it was too much, too embarrassing. I was so sad to hear this response from an adult. It was such a teachable moment about social responsibility, compassion and empathy.

Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Getters generally don't get happiness givers get it. You simply give to others a bit of yourself a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other fellow's mind and heart.

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you

An overriding spirit of humanity became a stronger force in play on Sept. 11 in the compassion and courage in the attempt to save lives,

Your friend, your enemy, your neutral all are equal. Genuine compassion is unbiased.

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

Certainly these are not just numbers they represent people that have gone through personal tragedies. We do not intend to minimize or brush aside their grievances nor shirk responsibility. The cruise industry is constantly reviewing its practices and procedures to make sure incidents, no matter how rare, are handled responsibly and with compassion.

I don't believe what I did with Marta was illegal or was unethical or wrong, ... She was being battered and I invited her into my home. I provided her with assistance, I helped her get back to Guatemala, and I believe that was an act of compassion.

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

While one person alone may make little difference in comparison to the magnitude of this disaster, millions of individual acts of compassion, taking place all over the country, will go a long way to alleviate the suffering,

Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.

We are strictly volunteers and our volunteers help supply our materials. Mrs. Edith Harper has been instrumental in helping us with supplies. Just recently she brought us pencils, pens, art paper, construction paper, markers, and writing paper. She does this out of the kindness of her heart.

He said, 'That's our secret Kill them with kindness.'

In times of catastrophe, when destruction, suffering and death are so overwhelming that it breaks your heart and almost leaves you numb, it is comforting to find that an outpouring of generosity, kindness and help from our fellow man restores our faith and strengthens our souls,

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper.