Quotes by Compassion Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven to devoting their lives to becoming enlightened by the natural flood of compassion for others that arises from their wisdom. Robert Thurman buddhismcompassionwisdom Compassion leads to freedom of discovering your voice, your gifts, and your purpose. Robert V. Taylor voicepurposecompassion The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a cool one, hard to see, that began 2,500 years ago with the Buddha's insight about the end of suffering. What I have learned from these people has forever changed my life, and I believe their culture contains an inner science particularly relevant to the difficult time in which we live. Robert Thurman compassiontimebelieve Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans. Robert Wagner love-and-compassioncompassionpet Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121) Robin Meyers mediacompassionhands Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him. Robin McKinley wallcompassionnames Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others. Rod Stryker frustratedcompassionlove Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive. Roger Caras huntershorsecompassion Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. Roger Tory Peterson environmentalcompassionbird The best leaders blend courage with compassion. Robin Sharma leadercompassionsuccess I have been a spokesperson for Operation Smile for twenty years helping children with facial deformities. I also have worked with a children's mission called Compassion International. Both are doing amazing work for the children of the world. Roma Downey compassionchildrenyears The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge. Ron Smothermon inabilityforgivingcompassion We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology. Ron Reagan ignorancecompassionkindness My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge. Rosanne Cash dadcompassionjudging How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently. Rose Macaulay selfishcompassiongiving There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe. Rose Pastor Stokes compassionairsympathy Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy. Ronald Reagan governmentcompassionrights Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies. Rowan Williams communitycompassionfeelings A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness Roy Lessin godlyloyaltycompassion Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world. Rudolf Steiner magiccompassionworld«9596979899100101102103104105»
