Compassion Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Compassion
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~ Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. ~

~ The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. ~

Everett M. Dirksen

~ It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. ~

U Thant

~ The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion. ~

Everett M. Dirksen

~ The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. ~

Everett M. Dirksen

~ It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty. ~

Hugh Blair

~ By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. ~

Sir Thomas Browne

~ Want oú compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity. ~

Henry Fielding

~ Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ~

Simone Weil

~ It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still. ~

Dalai Lama

~ World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us. ~

Dalai Lama

~ If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech. ~

Thich Nhat Hanh

~ But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living. ~

Thich Nhat Hanh

~ As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope ~

Ursula K. LeGuin

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

Louis Gerstner

~ Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. ~

Buddha

~ Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes ~

Thomas Sowell

~ Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress ~

Samuel Johnson

~ There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will quickly choke its competitors to death, and the fencerow rose will just as quietly crowd out any other plant that tried to share its roothold. Idealism and mercy are human terms and human concepts. ~

Hal Borland

~ The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. ~

Thomas Merton

~ These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness ~

Anthony de Mello

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

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

~ Until mankind can extend the circle of his compassion to include all living things, he will never, himself, know peace. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. ~

Boris Pasternak

~ 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. ~

Morgan Freeman

~ Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason. ~

Betty Williams

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