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It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the professional detachment that allows members of the healing arts to confront the ill without being overwhelmed by compassion and sorrow. He was surprised at that, how tenderhearted he seemed to have become, how thin-skinned.
— Isaac Asimov, Nightfall
Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.
— Jane Hirshfield
When you are at your lowest God speaks the loudest.
— Joanne Wilson-Edwards
A compassionate leader always feel motivated to bring happiness and relieve the suffering of customers, investors, suppliers, employees, government and the communities.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour.A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Galápagos
If Christians are all loving and full of God's grace (like some of us really are), do they truly love their neighbor? Would they catch a grenade for one of us (like some of us would for them because we truly have love in our hearts)?
— Solange nicole
Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self.
— Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patternsof fear & jealousy.
— Sharon Salzberg, The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
— Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
O Holy Spirit, give me a simple heart which will not retire within itself to savor its own sorrows, a heart magnanimous in giving itself, easily moved to compassion, a faithful, generous heart, which does not forget any favor received nor hold resentment for any injuries done to it.
— Leonce de Grandmaison
In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and for all. They pull us in the wrong direction and away from the decent and honorable code that makes us care for creatures who are entirely at our mercy. Especially within the last two hundred years, we've come to apply an industrial mind-set to the use of animals, too often viewing them as if they were nothing but articles of commerce and the raw material of science, agriculture, and wildlife management. Here, as in other pursuits, human ingenuity has a way of outrunning human conscience, and some things we do only because we can--forgetting to ask whether we should.
— Wayne Pacelle, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them
I want the white one
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
The essence of the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) is about identifying the cause of our suffering & alleviating it.
— Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion.
— Dalai Lama XIV, The Compassionate Life
Their lives revolved around evil acts; some within their control, and some not. Some of them weren’t born with the capacity for kindness, and others found it better to spare no compassion for anyone in this cruel world because they felt none would be given to them. Fate deals a bad hand to some folks. Some people are just doomed to be no good.
— Ramsey Isler, The Remortal
Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness
— Amit Abraham
While pity shows a lack of respect for other human beings, compassion has its roots in a deep respect for others. Pity is an emotion; compassion is a connection. Compassion sees the other as equal. Compassion happens when we care for another person enough to make his or her problems our own.
— Matt Litton, The Mockingbird Parables: Transforming Lives through the Power of Story
Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
Your truest spiritual path will lead you to yourself for it is devoted to becoming.
— Mollie Marti
The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even relate; and in result, the love lovingly, properly, effectively wills the removal of the destructive sins of another as from oneself.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand.
— Rob Liano
Though beauty is autonomous, there seem to be occasions when human presence can become congruent with her will. In creative work no amount of force or mechanical management can guarantee beauty. Suddenly, without expecting it, beauty is there. Yet ultimately beauty is a profound illumination of presence, a stirring of the invisible in visible form and in order to receive this we need to cultivate a new style of approaching the world.
— John O'Donohue
We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.
— John Winthrop
To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion.
— Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.
— Rachel Caine, Lord of Misrule
Dr. Kristin Neff is a researcher and professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She runs the Self-Compassion Research Lab, where she studies how we develop and practice self-compassion. According to Neff, self-compassion has three elements: self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness. Here are abbreviated definitions for each of these: Self-kindness: Being warm and understanding toward ourselves when we suffer, fail, or feel inadequate, rather than ignoring our pain or flagellating ourselves with self-criticism. Common humanity: Common humanity recognizes that suffering and feelings of personal inadequacy are part of the shared human experience—something we all go through rather than something that happens to “me” alone. Mindfulness: Taking a balanced approach to negative emotions so that feelings are neither suppressed nor exaggerated. We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time. Mindfulness requires that we not “over-identify” with thoughts and feelings, so that we are caught up and swept away by negativity.
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate -- and foreboding -- horizon.
— Stephen King, 11/22/63
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?
— Walter Scott
Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class Christian ways, and who leave the sub-middle-class sections of the community, Christian and non-Christian, to get on by themselves. The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor - spending and being spent - to enrich their fellowmen, giving time, trouble, care and concern to do good to others - and not just their own friends - in whatever way there seems need.
— J.I. Packer, Knowing God
One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
— Winston S. Churchill
In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing to her with such strong earnestness would have moved her to great compassion. But so long accustomed to suppress emotion and keep down reality, so long schooled for her own purposes in that destructive school which shuts up the natural feelings of the heart like flies in amber and spreads one uniform and dreary gloss over the good and bad, the feeling and the unfeeling, the sensible and the senseless, she had subdued even her wonder until now.
— Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
By revealing to Tomas her dream about jabbing needles under her fingernails, Tereza unwittingly revealed that she had gone through his desk. If Tereza had been any other woman, Tomas would never have spoken to her again. Aware of that, Tereza said to him, Throw me out! But instead of throwing her out, he seized her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers, because at that moment he himself felt the pain under her fingernails as surely as if the nerves of her fingers led straight to his own brain.Anyone who has failed to benefit from the Devil’s gift of compassion (co-feeling) will condemn Tereza coldly for her deed, because privacy is sacred and drawers containing intimate correspondence are not to be opened. But because compassion was Tomas’s fate (or curse), he felt that he himself had knelt before the open desk drawer, unable to tear his eyes from Sabina’s letter. He understood Tereza, and not only was he incapable of being angry with her, he loved her all the more.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.
— Susan Wiggs, At the King's Command
Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.It's not about being rich or poor, it's about being alive and happy.It's not about being right, it's about being considerate and compassionate.
— Karen L. Syed
To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52)
— Donald Rothberg
With the ferrule of his walking-stick Denis began to scratch the boar's long bristly back. The animal moved a little so as to bring himself within easier range of the instrument that evoked in him such delicious sensations; then he stood stock still, softly grunting his contentment. The mud of years flaked off his sides in a grey powdery scurf. "What a pleasure it is," said Denis, "to do somebody a kindness. I believe I enjoy scratching this pig quite as much as he enjoys being scratched. If only one could always be kind with so little expense or trouble...
— Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
Everyone has it within their heart to be vegan, but each time they eat anything from an animal they deny that this is so, they deny that they have enough love in their hearts to show these animals mercy and free them from our tyranny.This is a blatant lie that they keep telling themselves, time and time again. They would rather argue that they don't care about animals and find excuses to justify and continue harming them, than acknowledge any 'sissy' ability they might have to feel compassion for them.What they don't understand is, that they hurt themselves by not acknowledging this latent ability within their hearts though, and with this they deny themselves love too, for what is given out always comes back multifold.
— Mango Wodzak
Wake up wild one! Your mind is a cageless bird waiting to fly to uncharted lands. Like the phoenix, you'll rise again with renewed vigor, clarity, compassion and insight.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
I am an artist, and a rebel one at that. I live in the voluptuous dimension of imagination, so if you're expecting normalcy (dullness) from me, sorry to disappoint, but you're quite mistaken. Ordinary is not my best attire, I've tried it and normal just never fit quite right. I will always be the crazy one who believes in magic, unicorns and impossible dreams. But also love, compassion and empathy.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
She'd been taking care of others for so long that she scarcely recognized herself when she looked in the mirror.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Broken hearts behave in a million different ways- some of them are most unpredictable. More often than not such persons build walls around them and drive their loved ones crazy with their erratic behavior. Don’t give up on them at this time; it is now that they need you the most. Give them time and space. Then nurse them, mend their broken feathers and send them on their way fully recovered ready to face the world.
— Latika Teotia
Jake guessed Henry had been pulling shit like this on him so long that Eddie only noticed it when Henry pulled it on someone else – someone like the blonde ticket-seller.
— Stephen King, The Waste Lands
When their chatter died to a contented lull, a small red squirrel ventured out of the oak grove and turned to the side, watching them with one bright black eye."An intruder," Annabelle observed, with a delicate yawn.Evie rolled to her stomach and tossed a bread crust in the squirrel's direction. He froze and stared at the tantalizing offering, but was too timid to advance. Evie tilted her head, her hair glittering in the sun as if it had been overlaid with a net of rubies. "Poor little thing," she said softly, casting another crust at the timid squirrel. This one landed a few inches closer, and his tail twitched eagerly. "Be brave," Evie coaxed. "Go on and take it." Smiling tolerantly, she tossed another crust, which landed a scant few inches from him. "Oh, Mr. Squirrel," Evie reproved. "You're a dreadful coward. Can't you see that no one's going to harm you?"In a sudden burst of initiative, the squirrel seized the tidbit and scampered off with his tail quivering. Looking up with a triumphant smile, Evie saw the other wallflowers staring at her in drop-jawed silence. "Wh-what is it?" she asked, puzzled.Annabelle was the first to speak. "Just now, when you were talking to that squirrel, you didn't stammer.""Oh." Suddenly abashed, Evie lowered her gaze and grimaced. "I never stammer when I'm talking to children or animals. I don't know why.
— Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night
Eden Fruitarianism is the solution to the dilemma of the screaming carrot.
— Mango Wodzak, Destination Eden
It is better to err on the side of feeling.
— Marty Rubin
We all are busy in our lives handling our homes, work, various issues, ailments and so on… sometimes we don’t have a second to spare even for our own selves, so caught up with life we are…But, despite our problems, despite the pressure of anything, despite all kinds of challenges we face in our daily lives, if we can still just pause and stop to look at someone else’s problems, if we can just smile at the other person, believe me, we would have not only made someone’s day but will also feel that our own burden has become lesser and our problems may not appear to be that big after all! That’s the beauty of caring for others. Have you noticed how much at peace those people are who walk up to a perfect stranger and lend a helping hand, without being asked to and without expecting anything in return? That is what unconditional caring for others and helping others do to you. That is what service, good deeds and kindness do; they help the receiver as well as the giver.
— Latika Teotia
You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help them, who will?
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Sending love to all those who are trying their best to be nice and gentle despite being in the midst of negative as well as critical people…
— Latika Teotia
I appreciate all those who are fighting to stay positive, kind and gentle in the midst of negative people. A single lamp is enough to lighten a room full of darkness; so also one single kind hearted positive person is enough to ward off all the negative, critical and difficult people. Shine on.
— Latika Teotia
So let us recognise our shame and guilt; let us ache with self-reflection; let us eradicate the repetition of suffering and resist anger; let us learn to concretely tend to the suffering of an individual, of our common citizens, with equality; let us learn to live life with honour and dignity and a wealth of humanity.
— Xiaobo Liu
Truly caring people know they have to take care of themselves first.
— Marty Rubin
. . . there was something that Isabel had said that always stuck in his mind. Remember what you have and the other person doesn't. It was simple--almost too simple--advice and yet, like all such home advice, it expressed a profound truth.
— Alexander McCall Smith, A Distant View of Everything
People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, wrenches...something. Your entrails, maybe. The member of the mob who holds up the whole ceremony for seconds or even minutes while he dislodges a family of bugs or lizards from the log he is about to put on the fire.
— William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
She remembered a word he'd often used, karuna-one of the Buddha's words, Pali for compassion, for the immanence of all living things in each other, for the attraction of life for its likeness. A time will come, he had said to the girls, when you too will discover what this word karuna means, and from that moment on, your lives will never again be the same.
— Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace
It was the last time I would ever do that.
— Gail Gillespie-Fox
If you can’t see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you’re not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself.
— Scott Stabile
when you hate others, you hate yourself.when you hate yourself, you hate others.when you love others, you love yourself.when you love yourself, you love others.there is no separation.
— Scott Stabile
There's no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity.
— Germany Kent
Being right is massively overrated, especially when it comes at the expense of being compassionate and kind.
— Scott Stabile
Approaching this day with optimism and fire, with patience and determination, with compassion and love.
— Scott Stabile
When you give to others, you give to yourself.
— Scott Stabile
The more attention you put into being more loving, the more loving (and loved) you'll become.
— Scott Stabile
There's just no time for hatred. It's lazy and destructive. We can all do better. Our world needs us to.I love you.
— Scott Stabile
Heal yourself, heal the world. To change our world, we must heal and open our hearts.
— Eileen Anglin
I can think of no greater way to live my life than with as much love as I can give, as often as I can give it.
— Scott Stabile
And then it hit me—I don’t have to participate in these toxic conversations. But if I choose to, I can set a different example. I can bring love to the moment,regardless of the response. I can choose to be kind, no matter what.My power lives in my love.
— Scott Stabile
We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride.
— Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet
A seed cannot grow in stone. Compassion is the fertile soil where life grows.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
A seed cannot grow in stone. It requires fertile soil & water. Compassion is the soil where life grows.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
Never forget O Brave One, the best kind of existence is to exist for others.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament
It is impossible to experience a person’s life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.
— James Martin, Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity
Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies of the compassionate?Woe to all lovers who cannot surmount pity!Thus spoke the Devil to me once: Even God has his Hell: it is his love for man.And I lately heard him say these words: God is dead; God has died of his pity for man.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Allowance (non-judgmental, non-resistance to what Is) is a two-way street; our reaction to everyone and everything moving toward us and our reaction to our response moving forward...
— Maximus Freeman
Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
empathy is more powerful than sympathy
— Angie Thomas
See this abdicated beast, once kingOf them all, nibble his claws:Not anger enough left—no, nor despair—To break his teeth on the bars.
— Cecil Day-Lewis, The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis
Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peace and compassion.
— Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being
We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that our brethren experience.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by expressing compassion and sympathy for the entire community of life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. Love is holiness, discrimination is sin.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
I've never known someone to become more at home in his or her own body, in all of its flaws and its grace, without becoming more compassionate to all of life.
— Matthew W. Sanford
What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
It is Christlike to assume that people are trying to do the best they can. I know I am a better person when I cultivate empathy, and I have been blessed for having received it from others. As members of the body of Christ, we are each responsible for creating a space not only of acceptance, but of joy and encouragement for our sisters and brothers and the stories they are working so hard to live well.
— Ashley Mae Hoiland, One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God
Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.
— Karen Armstrong, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
I asked the Dalai Lama what it was like to wake up with joy, and he shared his experience each morning. 'I think if you are an intensely religious believer, as soon as you wake up, you thank God for another day. And you try to do God’s will. For a nontheist like myself, but who is a Buddhist, as soon as I wake up, I remember Buddha’s teaching: the importance of kindness and compassion, wishing something good for others, or at least to reduce their suffering. Then I remember that everything is interrelated, the teaching of interdependence. So then I set my intention for the day: that this day should be meaningful. Meaningful means, if possible, serve and help others. If not possible, then at least not to harm others. That’s a meaningful day.
— Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
A compassionate kind can see the animal as a living being, as a friend, as a family, as soul,as an expression of life. Be compassionate.
— Abhinav Rajput
The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.
— Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World
You must not hate those who do harmful things. The compassionate thing is to do what you can to stop them--for they are harming themselves as well as those who suffer from their actions.
— Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
I always understood the idea of the ultimate redeemer, Christ on the cross. But now I was beginning to see that this is something that is carried out in every one of us, that the purity of unearned suffering is a holy and affective thing It affects not only ourselves, but it touches and changes those around us as well. It opens us and those around us to a force beyond ourselves, a force that is right and moral, the force of righteous truth that is at the basis of human conscience. Suffering puts us and those around us in touch with our consciences. It opens and touches our hearts. It makes us feel compassion when we need to and guilt if we must.
— John Lewis
Changing the way LGBTQ individualswith chronic or life-limiting illnesses are cared for requires a paradigm shift in the way we (collectively, as health care professionals) approach the conversation about what it means to be inclusive in our compassion. You don’t need to change your religious or moral beliefs to provide good care to LGBTQ individuals.
— Kimberly D. Acquaviva, LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice
Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God’s redemption to the world.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Surrendering to the best of my abilities when the price of life has outweighed its benefit may be a compassionate choice for me and those around me.
— Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
The advice to "kill your darlings" has been attributed to various authors across the various galaxies... and Mister Heist hated them all.Why teach young writers to edit out whatever it is they feel most passionate about?Better to kill everything in their writing they DON'T love as much.Until only the darlings remain.
— Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Vol. 3
Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
How do we change the world? By sending out a ripple of love that will affect one person at a time.
— Nanette Mathews
Be the love the world needs. Think and act from your heart.
— Nanette Mathews
Human beings have a deep need to bond and form connections. If we can’t connect with each other, we will connect with whatever we can find … It is disconnection that drives addiction.
— Christopher Kennedy Lawford, When Your Partner Has an Addiction: How Compassion Can Transform Your Relationship
Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.
— Christopher Kennedy Lawford, When Your Partner Has an Addiction: How Compassion Can Transform Your Relationship
No one consciously chooses addiction to a substance or behavior over his partner. There are always reasons – powerful ones – why a person retreats into addiction.
— Christopher Kennedy Lawford, When Your Partner Has an Addiction: How Compassion Can Transform Your Relationship
Ignite the fire of loving kindness in your soul, fuel that fire with understanding and compassion for others, and start a bonfire of love worldwide.
— Nanette Mathews
I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in "the crowded street of life." That in itself need not be dangerous unless you have the open razors of personal vanity in your pants pocket. The passers-by don't hurt you, but if you go around like that, they make you hurt yourself.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment.
— Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
It is not a coincidence that you and your partner are together. You each have something to learn from one another …. The most important thing you can do to support your partner in his [or her] recovery is to show that you are truly supportive and on his [or her] side.
— Christopher Kennedy Lawford, When Your Partner Has an Addiction: How Compassion Can Transform Your Relationship
No matter how smart YOU THINK you are or how smart others THINK that you are, you're never going to be somewhere OR someone you're not. _nickc
— nick catricala
Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cultivating kindness, charity, and love.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.
— Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Compassion Enlivens us and enhances our immune system. The more we pour out, the more we find available. ﻿
— Angie karan
The greatest lesson you might ever learn in this life is this: It is not about you.
— Shannon L. Alder
When the wind blows in your face,when you feel you are losing your head,when the going gets tough,and when all else fails,look inside you,you are not alone.
— Malak El Halabi
Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will assuredly injure no one, do harm to no one, encroach on no man's rights; he will rather have regard for every one, forgive every one, help every one as far as he can, and all his actions will bear the stamp of justice and loving-kindness.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
As people used to say, “What the heart loves is the cure.” The cure for healing the wounds and conflicts between faiths and systems of belief involves awakening to the unique ways that each heart carries devotion and love. When followed far enough, simple belief can transform into wisdom; raw passions can become a greater compassion that trusts what resides in one’s heart and even in the hearts of others. Until the heart opens and the eyes begin to see there is always the danger of blindness and narrowness and the tendency to hold onto narrow ways of being.
— Michael Meade, Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.
— Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
Honesty and kindness can do much more for the world than anything else. And logic will always be weak without a strong heart. That is why the wisest tend to suffer the most from heartbreak. One cannot reach for God in His wisdom with the heart of a devil.
— Robin Sacredfire
I appreciate anyone that tries to make this world a better place.
— Renae A.Sauter
Despite the fact that we cannot be absolutely altruistic in our behavior, we can still build our character to be loving and compassionate – to empathize with others.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree
It probably takes many years of monastic practice to equal the spiritual growth generated by one sleepless night with a sick child.
— Douglas Abrams, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
He taught me that it's okay to be a star, but to never forget that there are millions of other stars out there waiting for someone to recognize them for what they are - to treat people as if they too are important, special, and full of light.
— Emily  Page, Fractured Memories: Because Demented People Need Love, Too
Without compassion for a fellow man, for great splendors of our Sister, Mother Earth the humankind will never reconcile with itself.
— Vinko Vrbanic
The term compassion means shared suffering. You develop compassion by knowing what it is like to suffer.
— Victor Shamas, The Chanters Guide: Sacred Chanting as a Shamanic Practice
You can have all the titles in the world but if you cannot treat others as you would yourself, you have no love to give!
— Kemi Sogunle
Survive, survive and survive – these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
When in doubt, favor compassionover certainty or tradition.
— Ivan M. Granger
Suffering is always an invitationto awarenessand compassionand action.
— Ivan M. Granger
There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone.
— Emil M. Cioran
Quran, like most other scriptures, is a book of most wonderful truth mixed with the most disgraceful superstitions of human nature.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
True happiness isn't a disruption-free life, its learning to recognize the ever-present contentment amidst the disruptions of life. Go with the flow(non-resistance), and when you struggle, remember to be compassionate with yourself...
— Maximus Freeman
When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.
— Shannon L. Alder
We are all in the same cart, going to execution; how can I hate anyone or wish anyone harm?
— Thomas More
When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help. The danger of tying your self-worth to being a helper is feeling shame when you have to ask for help. Offering help is courageous and compassionate, but so is asking for help.
— Brené Brown, Rising Strong
I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great
—  I am interested in whether you've sat with the broken.
I am not interested in whether you have stood with the great
—  I am interested in whether you have sat with the broken.
Live a life that you do not need to take a vacation from. Live in a way that makes yearly resolutions unnecessary. Make the kind of choices that leave you Happy and Healthy... where all of your needs are satisfied. Live a life where your only ‘wants’ are for others to feel as good as you do.
— Gary   Hopkins
I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken.
— Unknown
Look at every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Look every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Compassion is that special ingredient that is often missed, and it makes a difference in building a positive environment.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Appetite is the beast in man, compassion is his spirit.
— R. A. Delmonico
Once a person falls in the fields of love, all the rules are already broken; the lover becomes open and exalted in ways that transcend the local issues as well as the commonly held beliefs. Love, like genuine devotion, will find a way. Where duty becomes replaced with love, a greater and deeper faith will blossom forth. For the deepest meaning of “belief” refers to being loyal to what the heart already loves. As people used to say, “What the heart loves is the cure.” The cure for healing the wounds and conflicts between faiths and systems of belief involves awakening to the unique ways that each heart carries devotion and love. When followed far enough, simple belief can transform into wisdom; raw passions can become a greater compassion that trusts what resides in one’s heart and even in the hearts of others. Until the heart opens and the eyes begin to see there is always the danger of blindness and narrowness and the tendency to hold onto narrow ways of being.
— Michael Meade, Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves.
— Ted Cadsby, Closing the Mind Gap: Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World
Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life.
— Sandra Vischer, Unliving the Dream
... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
No amount of money can fill your heart up with what kindness and compassion can.
— Eileen Anglin
The invisible fuel for this healing process is our heartfelt compassion and loving presence and the sincerity of the collective intention that we bring to it.
— William Keepin, Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
COMPASSION ALERT:As we enter the Season of Goodwill - Feel the warm glow in your heart by lighting up a smile on someone's face
— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
The time has come for women and men to band together to jointly create gender harmony. We must gather in mixed group to plumb new depths of relational awareness, courageous truth-telling, compassionate listening, empathic sensitivity, and mutual healing.
— William Keepin, Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you're about to react harshly and you'll avoid doing and saying things you'll later regret.
— Lori Deschene
How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs?
— Mango Wodzak, Destination Eden
Love is an energy that is addictive, contagious and free. Earn it, chase it, give it to those in need.
— Aaron Lauritsen
Choose empathy over apathy.
— Mango Wodzak, Destination Eden
One of my greatest fears, and what might be one of the greatest obstacles to ending or putting a massive dent in extreme poverty alleviation, is this: when everyday, normal people feel as if they can't help. Let me repeat: this is a tragedy.In fact, I would say it is the ordinary people who will determine how much impact is done in the world. It's the ordinary folks who have a great responsibility. If individuals like you and me decide in our hearts to be deliberate and care for the poor, there is no doubt we can truly see the majority of extreme poverty vanish into thin air.
— Chris Marlow, Doing Good Is Simple: Making a Difference Right Where You Are
People fall short. Your finger-pointing hurts you more than it does them. Less judgement. More compassion
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Truth is on the side of compassion.
— Christina Hoff Sommers
When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to—a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves.
— Vironika Tugaleva
I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours.
— Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Let those feelings out. Talk about it. Even if you’re talking to your journal by yourself in an empty room. That still counts. That still matters.If you know someone who’s struggling and isolated, help them talk about it. Even if they don’t have the right words. Even if you sit in silence as they try to feel safe. Even if they shower you with complaints, excuses, and justifications. Even if you can see they’re just playing small, being irrational, blaming circumstances. Just be there. It all counts. It all matters.
— Vironika Tugaleva
No one's life will be harder because I exist.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded—a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lodore
Live with compassion, work with confidence, and create opportunities for others to conquer the world.
— Farshad Asl
Because…” Gabriel closed his eyes to his truth. Because the premise that a child must be threatened with harm to earn God’s blessing is no longer acceptable to me; because that smug face cannot be the face of my God; because a rejecting and shaming God is a God of men created by men to serve the agendas of men; because I couldn’t find any stained glass window maker who is able to capture the face of the God I want to see—the God of hope, of compassion, of acceptance.
— Neil Abramson, Just Life
The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you.
— Shannon L. Alder
You want to see compassion? Fine." I take the hand pressed against my shoulders and kiss his knuckles. "I've now kissed the hand of my mother's killer."Before he has time to react to my chaste kiss, I bring my other hand up and slap him. His head whips to the side."I'm also a vindictive bitch," I say.
— Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Dies
We can bring heaven on the earth when we have compassion for all living beings.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.
— Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Always remember to give yourself the kindness, compassion and consideration you give to others.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Unless we understand how the twists and turns of life operate to make us, we cannot comprehend who and what we are. Without self-awareness, we are blind to registering the intertexture of other people’s inner life. Gracefully enduring personal hardships expands our minds to extend sympathy and empathy for other people. By casting our personal life experiences into a supple storytelling casing, we create the translucent membrane that quarters the fusion of our flesh, nerves, blood, and bones. Self-understanding is an essential step in loving the entire world.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We could scan each car for terrorists  and lovers she could lean into my camouflage her head resting on woven trees. When they come for her body she could run deep  into my uniform into the forest of me  where they could never find her.
— Jalina Mhyana, The Wishing Bones
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
— George Washington Carver
Now I need to speak directly and with compassion to those who have already pushed open the door of premarital sex. The monster has been released. You've lost your virginity and may have been sexually active for years. Perhaps you've been carrying a load of guilt for doing what you knew was wrong.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Compassion and kindness it turned out, was good for your health.
— James R. Doty
The darker side of Nietzsche’s ideas was incorporated into the Nazi belief system. Part of the link was straightforward: some things Nietzsche said were pure Nazi doctrine. His comments that ‘The extinction of many types of people is just as desirable as any form of reproduction’ and that ‘the tendency must be towards the rendering extinct of the wretched, the deformed, the degenerate’ could come from any work on racial hygiene. Nietzsche’s central contribution was not these explicitly Social Darwinist views, but his rejection of the Judeo-Christian morality of compassion for the weak. Self-creation required hardness towards oneself: a strong will imposing coherence on conflicting impulses. It also requires hardness on others. Conflicts between the self-creative projects of different people made inevitable the attempt to dominate others. The whole of life was a struggle in which victory went to the brave and to the strong-willed. Noble human qualities, linked with the will to power, were brought out in combat but atrophied in peace. Compassion was weakness, cowardice and self-deception. The Judeo-Christian emphasis on it was poison. In drawing these consequences from his beliefs about the death of God and from Social Darwinism, Nietzsche provided the part of the Nazi belief system which ‘justified’ the cruel steps they took to implement their other beliefs.
— Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
There are miracles and glory in every child. Our glory lies in empowering them to flourish their glory.
— Amit Ray
Every individual whom you interact with affects the flow of energy in your body. Some flow with positivity spreading love and compassion, making you happy. Others flow like venom, harming you. The question is what to do with these negative people? Either, you can simply throw them out of your life and not let them affect you anymore. The other way is to have so much positivity and optimism that their negativity is covered up with your energy!
— Neelam Saxena Chandra