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As for my own religious practice, I try to live my life pursuing what I call the Bodhisattva ideal. According to Buddhist thought, a Bodhisattva is someone on the path to Buddhahood wo dedicates themselves entirely to helping all other sentient beings towards release from suffering. The word Bodhisattva can best be understood by translating the Bodhi and Sattva separately: Bodhi means the understanding or wisdom of the ultimate nature of reality, and a Sattva is someone who is motivated by universal compassion. The Bodhissatva ideal is thus the aspiration to practise infinite compassion with infinite wisdom. releasing sentient beings from suffering.
— Dalai Lama XIV, Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
A person’s attitude creates the tone of his or her life. The highest expression of human dignity is to live a purposeful life devoted to principles and exhibiting compassion for other people.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone.
— John Bruna
Punker, what's compassion for a world this far gone? The streets don't give a fuck. It's a bummer, your care slides down its target like beads of rain on rock. There's no aquifer for any shit like this. Where does compassion go and can it be returned? You're Donn in this world, with the staff and the purple band. The artificer. Walking the bandoned suites of hell and your eyeballs thinking, what can be saved? Not their gear but its aspects. You started kung fu way later than the rest, and before that you saw compassion in a history spiel. Now it keeps washing up on your shore. Giving a shit might be made of parts, it might be made solo. It might be an invasive species or not. Punks evolved from dinos too. Not even cross time and distance. But the spikes on their heads are the same.
— Noah  Wareness
Your genuine happiness does not come from other people, activities or things, it comes from living a meaningful life - a life that is in alignment with your values and is beneficial.
— John Bruna
When you show compassion instead of being judgemental. You will not undergo your own judgement, but you will receive your own love
— Guus Gelsing
Giants too need a shoulder to lean on. They might be the shoulder to stand on when they're on their feet.
— David Gatata
One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.
— Mother Teresa
Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.
— Liza M. Wiemer
When someone is hurt andwe hear ourselves saying"I don't understand, why"PAUSEAt the pause, ask "What am I missing here ?"At the pause, stop judging, stop reacting,get curious and believe their hurt stateAt the pause, tap into their heart and mind.Now see how this pause transforms the conversation.
— Wordions
See life and feel its pulses with the eyes of a compassionate mother.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary.
— James Purdy
I wanted, for so long, for someone to understand me better than I understood myself, to take control of me, to save me, to make it all better. I thought that the hardest part of a loving, mutually healing relationship would be showing my vulnerable, raw spots to a person, even though I'd been hurt so many times before. This has not been the hardest part. The actual hardest part has been realizing that no one, no matter how compassionate and kind they are, will say the perfect things always. Myself included. The hardest part has been learning to communicate what I need, to hear what others need, to tell others how to tell me what they need. Intimacy takes a lot of communication. We all have triggers. I don't know your triggers and you don't know mine. No matter how much I love or trust you, you cannot possibly know exactly the words I need to hear, the words I don't want to hear, and the way I like to be touched. And how strange that we expect these things of each other. How strange, and self-sabotaging, that we refuse to get into relationships and friendships with people unless they treat us in just that perfect way. We've been raised to want fairy tales. We've been raised to wait for flawless saviors to rescue us. But the savior isn't flawless and the savior is not coming. The savior is you. The savior is still learning. The savior is never done learning. The savior is a human being. Forget perfect. Forget flawless. And start speaking your truth. Start speaking what you want and how you want it. And start asking and listening, really listening, to what the people around you say. Maybe, then, we will stop abandoning and hurting each other. Maybe, then, there's hope for us.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to foresee you, only to discover you.
— Mary Haskell
Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these bestial men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.
— Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt
If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,'' returned the Ghost, "will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.''Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief."Man,'' said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race," returned the Ghost, "will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief."Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Only love and compassion can bring true and lasting transformation
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Be careful that you do not misjudge or underestimate this man. He is more than he seems and less than you imagine. He is in pain. That pain, however, is always on the very edge of rage. Use your heart, use your gift to listen and to hear the nature of this man's heart, and save him if you can, rather than destroy him.
— Mina Marial Nicoli, The Magic of Avalon Eyrelin
There is nothing in nature which approximates to the idea of a hospice.
— Jim Crumley
People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win.
— Stewart Stafford
Why study what the world thinks? I believe this practice will actually make us more gracious and merciful. Engaged in interactions with worldlings, we are likely to see each person and each situation individually and to allow them to infuriate us. But, stepping back to see the world's pattern of thought rather than a particular instance in which we are wronged, we can gain perspective. By seeing this lost person's dealings as another example of blindness to Your Truth and of what Paul calls vain imaginations, we are more likely to turn our assertiveness to prayer rather than maneuvering for human advantage.
— Brian Eshleman
She had stars in her eyes and galaxies in her veins
— Rosie Perry
Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place whey are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. As busy, active, relevant ministers, we want to earn our bread by making a real contribution. This means first and foremost doing something to show that our presence makes a difference. And so we ignore our greatest gift, which is our ability to enter into solidarity with those who suffer.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
When your love has conquered your desire for possession and lust, this love then, turns into a compassionate energy, that crosses all bars of distance and time, and touches the one you love, in ways never understood but just felt.So whether, in acceptance or in rejection, keep feeding love more love. And always believe the one you love can never remain untouched by it.
— Wordions
You shut your door to these poor women," he said so they could hear him, "and you'll answer for it the rest of your lives. You won't sleep. You'll choke on drinks. The food you eat'll block up your bowels and you'll die of your own shit.
— Glendon Swarthout, The Homesman
There is a defect in usas human beingsbecause we think ourselvesa fortress, a mountain, unbreakablebut at the centerin that stillness of beingthere is a chasmof lovewhich echoes hope, compassion, empathytry again, it saysand though the fault lines are full of darknesswe are held together bythe optimism and foolishness of a single spark
— Nadia Hasan, Waking the Wild
Feeling compassion toward a dangerous person will not lead you to submit to them or put yourself at risk or condone their actions. What it does simply, is relieve your anxiety – which immediately makes you stronger and more resilient.
— Laurie Perez, Breakthrough: How to Have Compassion for Those Who Do Harm
Be kind and have compassion for others, anyone his situation can change in a minute
— Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Compassion is the shortcut to connection.
— Marilyn Suttle, Taming Gladys!: The Busy Leader's Guide to Creating Fierce Customer Loyalty
A common mistake people make is assuming compassion requires some kind of action they’re not ready to take. In other words, if I feel compassion for this dangerous, havoc-wreaking person (or for my tedious co-workers, the guy who cut me off in traffic, my abusive parents, that politician, etc.) then I’ll have to drop everything I’m into and go hug and try to heal or help...or...do something I don’t know how to do. Not so. Compassion begins within; the compassion you have for yourself will guide you to act or detach with regard for your own well-being.
— Laurie Perez, Breakthrough: How to Have Compassion for Those Who Do Harm
Transition isn't pretty, but stagnation is hideous.
— Nikki Rowe
Then his heart made up his mind.
— Lindsay Mattick, Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
Sometimes the people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it most.
— Kristi Ling, Operation Happiness: The 3-Step Plan to Creating a Life of Lasting Joy, Abundant Energy, and Radical Bliss
The world is broken and remains that way, in spite of our efforts to help it. This is beautiful, in a way, because it breaks us of our self-dependency. In a world that refuses to be healed, we must face the fact that we are not the heroes of our stories. It teaches us to rely on something bigger than ourselves and teaches the source of true compassion.
— Jeff Goins, Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into your Comfortable Life
If you're trying to serve someone in need and it doesn't hurt a little, you're doing something wrong. Sure, it's nice to lend a helping hand, but true compassion causes your heart to break - even at the moment you're helping...When people say the only reason to help the less fortunate is so you can feel better about yourself, I laugh. Those people obviously have never lived among the poor, the destitute, the heartbroken. They have never put themselves out there and truly suffered with someone in pain. This idea that philanthropy is self-medication is not true; in fact, it's so outrageous that it's laughable. If you're really helping someone in pain - if you're really experiencing compassion - you can't help but hurt too.This is the litmus test for those aspiring to make a difference in others' lives: Do we feel cheery about the work we're doing, or does it hurt a little, maybe even a lot? If the latter, you're on the right track.
— Jeff Goins, Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into your Comfortable Life
Pain in the body is a clear indication, Something in the energy fields are blocking inner growth.
— Nikki Rowe
I firmly believe that life is made up of moments. Some are significant, and some are disposable. Some sit at the edge of your awareness and taunt you when you're trying to sleep, and others fade into the background noise of life. But every moment, no matter how small, has the potential to create or destroy you.
— Cecily White, Conspiracy Boy
It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort.
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
At a distance, we see a need and ignore it. We judge it, condemn it, forget it. We don't think about it, because if we practice ignorance long enough, we don't notice the need anymore. It goes underground, and we're content with the surface of life as we know it - unwilling to break deeper ground. If all appears to be well on the outside, that is good enough for our consciences....If we are willing to dig deep, to find Calcutta in our own backyards, we will find the poor. But we will also find God. And He may just open our eyes, so that we can see the need and not soon forget. So that we can hear their cries and not grow deaf. So that we can smell the stench of human need and awaken our hearts to compassion.
— Jeff Goins, Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into your Comfortable Life
Ask yourself, 'who is the one suffering from this anger? The person who has harmed me has gone on to live their life (or perhaps has died), while I am the one sitting here feeling the persecution, burning and constriction of anger. Out of compassion for myself, to ease my own heart, may I let go.
— Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
We who are rich with respect to the rest of the world must come to grips with our own poverty if we are going to make a difference. We must allow our hearts to be broken so we can make things whole once again. We must fall apart before we can build up. Anything else is not compassion. It may raise money or impress the neighbors, but it won't satisfy.
— Jeff Goins, Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into your Comfortable Life
No one can control their results. We can, however, control our attitude. When we practise compassion, it is most effective when it is unconditional and free from seeking an outcome – compassion is a matter of choice rather than a self-seeking action. And so, if we assist another human being from a place of presence and compassion, we are not looking to find our happiness off the back of others’ suffering. Nor are we trying to control them. Compassion is a conscious choice rather than an emotional knee-jerk reaction.
— Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
In my view, compassion takes empathy to another level. With compassion, there is an internal calling to move empathy into action. Compassion is love in action.
— Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own crowding problems, and guess what it might men to me, to walk in dead air where once the world had been a god-filled garden.
— Mary  Stewart
By letting go of misguided beliefs, love and compassion can break through.
— Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience
If you've been on this side, then you'll have more compassion and understanding for those still on this side when you get to the other side, because you know how it feels like to be on this side. Sometimes though, relief comes too sudden and good that we tend to lose our sense of empathy for those still on this side, and it's amazing how we've forgotten so soon how it felt like to be on this side. How would it have felt if you were treated the same way you treat those who are on this side by those who were on the other side, when you were still on this side, now that you are on the other side?
— Ufuoma Apoki
A truly evolved society is one which is measured by how well it treats the least of its members.
— Seamus Nash, Politicizing the Person-Centred Approach: An Agenda for Social Change
Never let your desire to have an accepting heart towards others keep you from your strong boundaries. The hurricane may come blasting at our door; yet it doesn’t mean we have to invite it in for tea. Sometimes, it’s important to recognize that the hurricane is a powerful and damaging storm, not a light spring shower.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
The entire Universe will conspire to satiate our desire of what we put out there... as long as that desire was created in the womb of compassion
— Angie karan
If we love unconditionally just like our Creator, we will awaken of the goodness in souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It takes compassion to truly understand another person.
— David Kaczynski, Every Last Tie: The Story of the Unabomber and His Family
Try to show grace, mercy and compassion, for one day you may need them.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
No matter what path you're on in this life, if that path isn't about love, you're on the wrong path.
— Laurence Overmire
We are nothing without compassion for others and for all other beings!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Jesus loved manhood so much, that He delighted to honour it; and since it is a high honour, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man,
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Requiring accountability while also extending your compassion is not the easiest course of action, but it is the most humane, and, ultimately, the safest for the community.
— Brené Brown, Rising Strong
Have you ever stopped to think that maybe you were wrong? Maybe, you only saw your point of view and you never once put yourself in the other person's shoes. Maybe, walking away from the senseless drama and spiteful criticism isn't the best thing to do. Maybe, for just once in your life you could wear another person's confusion, pain or misunderstanding. Maybe, your future doesn't require explaining yourself or offering an explanation for your indifference, but your character and reputation does. What if one day you find out that you didn't have all the information you thought you did? What if you find out that your presence was needed for healing? What if you only knew half of it and the other half was just your fear and anger translating everything you experienced? What if you were wrong? What if the same thing happened to you?
— Shannon L. Alder
God doesn't call us to mediocrity. He calls us to a greater standard that doesn't teach us to tear people down to reach him, but to lift others up. Be the type of person that when people walk away from you, they know who you represent!
— Shannon L. Alder
Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Life is too short, and sometimes brutal, and in the end we have only each other... Nothing else matters.
— William Donelson
In the present moment we can always realize that the ground is to develop loving-kindness toward ourselves. As adults, we can begin to cultivate a sense of loving-kindness for ourselves—by ourselves, for ourselves. The whole process of meditation is one of creating that good ground, that cradle of loving-kindness where we actually are nurtured. What’s being nurtured is our confidence in our own wisdom, our own health, and our own courage, our own goodheartedness. We develop some sense that the way we are—the kind of personality that we have and the way we express life—is good, and that by being who we are completely and by totally accepting that and having respect for ourselves, we are standing on the ground of warriorship. " Pema Chodron, Awakening Loving-Kindness, pages 144–145
— Pema Chödrön
People can and often do ignore or deny their common humanity with others, or deny, at least implicitly, that their common humanity commits them to sympathy or compassion for those less advantaged than themselves. Indeed, such an attitude towards one's fellows can be represented as tough, uncompromising, positively heroic: the supermen versus the wimps. But just as this ruthless world may be chosen - as it is chosen by the current rulers of the globalised neo-liberal market - so if may also be rejected.
— David Smail, Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress
Compassion without action is meaningless.
— Dillon Burroughs, Faith Acts: A Provocative Call to Live What You Believe
We find it difficult to distinguish between spiritual combatants… and their hostages.
— Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
Venice was a contrast from Los Angeles itself, where you might see a woman with $15,000 tits, a face frozen in place by Botox, wobbling with her $4,000 Gucci bag right past a child with a sunken belly and exposed ribs encaging a heart too weak to scream.
— Jackie Haze, Borderless
When your goal is not fame or notoriety, you can simply show up, offer compassion to people, and let God do His work.
— Dillon Burroughs, Faith Acts: A Provocative Call to Live What You Believe
When you know someone close to you who are quiet or smaller or missing, seek them out, they may need to be found again. It is most beautiful to turn off our ego and feel true empathy for others. Compassion, sympathy, kindness, empathy, selflessness, etc. are the biggest signs of a person with a good soul and a big heart!﻿
— Angie karan
Compassion is born from understanding suffering. We all should learn to embrace our own suffering, to listen to it deeply, and to have a deep look into its nature.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Communicating
Be a vessel of love and fill up with compassion and kindness. Then give it away with unconditional love.
— Debasish Mridha
Where there is darkness, let me be the light. Where there is suffering, let me be kind and compassionate.
— Debasish Mridha
The most compassionate thing I can do for them is continuing to see their potential. They need to know that people are not going to abandon them because of their bad behavior. Only in the security of this can they let themselves learn better strategies.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Juvenile Justice: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition: A Reference Handbook
If developing ties to this world and exercising love and compassion are not the very point of us -- I cannot presume to know -- then we are at least better occupied in this way, I feel, than with the riddles of other worlds, which only prove impossible for us to solve and unhealthy even to ponder.
— Kevin Costner, A Passage to Shambhala
All we have is compassion and stories.
— Barry López
In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all.
— Vironika Tugaleva
The people are suffering. Relieving people’s poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.
— Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
Earl: Augh! They're trying to take the wolf off the endangered list .Mooch: I know. But did you hear what they're putting back on the endangered list? Earl: What?Mooch: Empathy and compassion.
— Patrick McDonnell
I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.
— Victoria Moran, Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World
Life can be very hard sometimes and you wonder why, but a little compassion is sometimes all anyone needs to get by.
— Heather Wolf, Kipnuk Has a Birthday
Morality without kindness and compassion is very dangerous.
— Debasish Mridha
She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent controlled starvation and confirmed how quickly it impacts the initiative and generosity we like to think of as "American" characteristics.
— Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Your outer world mirrors your inner world. How you view your outer world is how you view you, your inner world, the 'you' that needs your care, your attention, your compassion and your love.
— Kelly    Martin, When Everyone Shines But You - Saying Goodbye To I'm Not Good Enough
No one can read the books of Moses with any care without understanding that law can be a means of grace. Certainly this law is of one spirit with the Son of Man who says, "I was hungry and you fed me. I was naked and you clothed me." This kind of worldliness entails the conferring of material benefit over and above mere equity. It means a recognition of and respect for both the intimacy of God's compassion and the very tangible forms in which it finds expression.
— Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
Your self-worth and self-esteem cannot be changed by doing positive affirmations. If that were the case many people would be super confident and are not. It may appear to work for some, but only because they have already faced the hurts inside that have caused low self-worth and low self-esteem, and are ready to feel differently. Acknowledging the pain and the suffering that take place inside you, and allowing the feelings, will take time, but this new way of handling these feelings will change the way you relate to you and to the outside world.
— Kelly    Martin, When Everyone Shines But You - Saying Goodbye To I'm Not Good Enough
You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way. The pathway to enlightenment and transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You don't think any job's a job unless it's your job.
— Last Man Standing
Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.
— Richard Brookhiser
John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves--that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune's cruelest agents as well.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed
— H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
The greatest thing a human being can do is to be compassionate to humanity.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Love is the state of being; it is not a personal feeling directed to a particular someone. Love is beyond romance and attraction.Love is when it doesn't matter when you get that person or not because you have met your own self through that person and that self will always be with you....within you.Love is not your loftiest fantasy you always thought will happen to you. Love is not wanting someone at any cost and cursing them if you do not "get" them. Love is who you are - your very essence felt and experienced by all that come into your vicinity
— Rashmit Kalra
Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.
— M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team, M*A*S*H EPISODE GUIDE: Details All 251 Episodes with Plot Summaries. Searchable. Companion to DVDs Blu Ray and Box Set.
The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan
— Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.
— Shannon L. Alder
Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and compassionate towards the goal.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
No animals needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.
— Howard Lyman
It is infinitely better to rely on the pursuit of economic interest by landowners or street companies than to depend on the dubious “altruism” of bureaucrats and government officials.
— Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.
— Pino Caruso
Once you come to terms with why you don't eat cats, dogs, monkeys, and dolphins, you will begin to understand why I don't eat cows, pigs, chickens, and lambs.
— Edward Sanchez
The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.
— Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
Little girls have large maternal instincts, and they take the Feast of Hungry Ghosts very seriously, and they were making their rounds with small lanterns made from candles inside rolled lotus and sage leaves. I could feel ghosts all around us, moving toward the warmth of the sweet singing voices: You are not alone, the girls sang, you are not forgotten, we care and understand, our own lives are but a candle flame from yours.
— Barry Hughart
The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
A holiday is for kindness, compassion, love, and holiness; it is not for laziness or craziness.
— Debasish Mridha
Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when taken to extremes, a human being can have great concern for other human beings and absolutely no concern for themselves.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
Have compassion for your past. By showing love to the present. Your past was just the portal to now.
— Matthew Donnelly
I have three powers to win the world: my omnipotent love, my omnipresent kindness, and my omniscient compassion.
— Debasish Mridha
A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?
— Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.
— Shannon L. Alder
Be the compassionate observer. No labels, just unconditional compassion. Fun times pass, tough times pass. Compassion will be eternal.
— Matthew Donnelly
Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment...
— Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved
Food-sharing is an innate way that we show our love for people we care about. Including others in times of celebration is an act of kindness.
— Dr. Theresa Nicassio
Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.
— Shannon L. Alder
I was starting to fall for him, He didn't say it but the wayHe looked at me, Told me he felt the same.
— Nikki Rowe
Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
Your tears for others will float you closer toward God.
— Shannon L. Alder
If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.
— Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved
Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.
— Shannon L. Alder
Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning away from a difficult and principled position, which you know to be the right one, but which you decide not to take. You do not want to appear too political; you are afraid of seeming controversial; you want to keep a reputation for being balanced, objective, moderate; your hope is to be asked back, to consult, to be on a board or prestigious committee, and so to remain within the responsible mainstream; someday you hope to get an honorary degree, a big prize, perhaps even an ambassadorship. For an intellectual these habits of mind are corrupting par excellence. If anything can denature, neutralize, and finally kill a passionate intellectual life it is the internalization of such habits. Personally I have encountered them in one of the toughest of all contemporary issues, Palestine, where fear of speaking out about one of the greatest injustices in modern history has hobbled, blinkered, muzzled many who know the truth and are in a position to serve it. For despite the abuse and vilification that any outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights and self-determination earns for him or herself, the truth deserves to be spoken, represented by an unafraid and compassionate intellectual.
— Edward Said
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Arrange your life in such a way that you don't make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God.
— Shannon L. Alder
Make choices in life that don't leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn't include God in the decision making process.
— Shannon L. Alder
Good deeds awaken the good spirit of every soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Even suffering when wrapped in love, seems tolerable.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
May we find more grace to do good deeds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If humans are kind to each other, if really humanity do exist, the world would have been a better place and we wouldn’t need to fight so much for innocent lives. This would have made our struggles easier. As I get involved more and more in protecting innocent lives my faith in Humanity fades away. What a world we live in? Can we have faith in humanity? We humans are here to protect others, but we are the very reason that their lives are in danger. How long can we fight for the week, for the voiceless? The future is so dark!!!
— Ama H. Vanniarachchy
We cannot 100 percent know the depth of another person’s heart. We cannot know the whys and whats of his soul.This idea could be sad, but it doesn’t have to be. Instead of rendering human beings powerless, it could render them more compassionate. Knowing that the stranger who just bumped you in the hall or that the awkward loner who sits behind you in class each have a story, makes it easier to chose kindness — again, again, and again.
— Chelsey Philpot
emotion untempered by reason is social suicide
— Charles Benedict Davenport, Heredity in Relation to Eugenics
Compassion is an act of love. You act in love to be kind, be gentle and be peaceful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Even if it's very late at night. Someone's always awake in the world. But of all those things you could think up for people to be doing, I think going hungry would have to be your safest bet. Going hungry, pushing each other around, leaving bombs, breaking promises, leaving nothing. It happens far away all the time. But sometimes near. We're almost two kinds of people. Some of us see it on the evening news or read about it in the morning paper. And some of us get hurt. But, you know we all get hurt. Because even if you live in a very nice house like I do, sooner or later the lies and the fires have got to burn you.
— Ann Druyan
There's something so quietly contained in the moments when one reaches their hand out to support your tragedy. It's hardly ever spoken about, but the feeling of belonging to somewhere, or someone for a split second, gives you enough power to carry on a few more steps. When the world is full of compassionate people like this, the world will know Unconditional Love.
— Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman
If given a choice between stoic justice and compassion, I choose compassion. And if given a choice between worldly leadership and heaven at my feet—I choose heaven.
— Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet. White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which will not be tomorrow and will not be today and may very well be never -- the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.
— James     Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.
— Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
It took until the end of her life for me to cherish each day with my mother the way I naturally did with my brother. At the end, I loved my mother simply, without request to do better in any way, or be more capable in any way. I simply loved that she was there, and she was my mother. I wish I did that more often in my life. I will do that more often in my life for those who are still here.
— Darcy Leech, From My Mother
I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length.
— Mike Weaver
We must be passionate and controlled but not reckless. Truth is not established by shame, guilt, or coercion or tribalism. It must be established by reason, evidence, presentation, compassion, and yes, faith. It cannot be established by ridicule, mocking, or insults of sacred icons or traditions but by disproving them or establishing their lack or veracity or usefulness.
— Leviak B. Kelly, The Leprechaun Delusion
I say, ‘We believe in a Christ’. If that being existed physically or not, it’s still important, because the message was so basic and sensible and powerful, that we should live by those truths. Love, compassion, generosity. God doesn’t punish anyone. Churches aren’t needed. Money in connection to belief is an abomination. They say, ‘Oh…’. Then they quote the Old Testament.
— Genesis P-Orridge
Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. By the green land; by the bright hearthstone! this is the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye. No, no; stay on board, on board!- lower not when I do; when branded Ahab gives chase to Moby Dick. That hazard shall not be thine. No, no! not with the far away home I see in that eye!
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Just because it had happened before didn’t mean it wasn’t serious. It didn’t mean he didn’t need them.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
To be able to put oneself in another’s position, to be able to see and to feel as another person does, this is the rare gift of an earnest spiritual seeker.
— Amma
Part of me felt deep compassion. And another part felt like, You fucker.
— Augusten Burroughs, Dry
No separation of distance
—  no separation of time
Even while we hate, we still have that deep unusual  compassion for our rivals, and they hate it when they realize that we are feeling sorry for them.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal; and though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part, and prophesy in part.But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
— Saint Paul the Apostle, Letters of Saint Paul
What do you believe in ?""People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything to abolish it. To tell you the truth, nothing else seems to me of any importance.
— Simone de Beauvoir
Trauma ruptures and hollows. Compassion mends and fills
—  love heals.
Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Happiness is an inner perception. It comes from simplicity, kindness, love, and compassion.
— Debasish Mridha
Nothing has value without self worth
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Compassion for humanity begins with compassion and respect for all beings.
— Jeffrey A.  White
caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Compassion is happiness.
— Sixeye
Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.
— Shannon L. Alder
In that moment, the moon and the sun shared the sky. For all of eternity, the moon and sun have chased each other around the world. Long into the future, they will continue this chase, merging the days into months into years into centuries, until the day the sun cannot take the separation any longer and she shatters, engulfing the moon and everything else in a burst of light. Most will call it the day of final judgment. The end. To the sun and the moon, it will only be the beginning.For the smallest of instants each day, they pause in this chase. They pause and look back at one another, smiling as if sharing a secret. Two lovers that can never exist as one, except in that single, brief instant. Lying there, Persephone smiled too. And as quickly as a smile parts two lips, the two sky wanderers parted ways. The chase was on again. Night gave way to day.That is true love, she had always thought. No force but love can impel one to step willingly into the shadows so that the other may shine.
— Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist
What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a better person.
— Shannon L. Alder
I replay the scene again and again, the broken mashed-up face looming over me, the knowledge between the two of us that I'd done it. That act of kindness is still more unfathomable to me than any cruelty.
— Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms.
— Shannon L. Alder
When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
— Langston Hughes
In a corner of her heart she imagined her compassion as kindling that could ignite not only her tender and guarded feelings for her mother, but also jump across the void and ignite her mother’s feelings for her.
— Sonja Yoerg, House Broken
It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.
— David Halberstam
Compassion brings people together.
— Sunday Adelaja
The person you think is useless and a nobody today, might be the very person you will need tomorrow. Never look down on anyone.
— Bien Sufficient
To help people, love them. Then, they help themselves.
— Vironika Tugaleva
The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.
— David Brooks
As the flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
If only you could be yourself." they shouted. So, she did. "You are not like me or anyone I have met!" they screamed. So, she blended. "You are so fake." they laughed. So, the caterpillar retreated to her cocoon to find peace alone. One day, they came to find her gone. She left a message, “God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see...I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me--better.
— Shannon L. Alder
He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.
— Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol