~ 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. ~
~ It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance. ~
~ Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still. ~
~ 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. ~
~ If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech. ~
~ 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. ~
~ Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ~
~ Make no judgements where you have no compassion. ~
~ Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism ~
~ It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked ~
~ Compassion is no substitute for justice. ~
~ No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself ~