Quotes by Compassion Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them. Bill Ayers parentingcompassionkids Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion. Bill Ferguson characteristicsresistancecompassion Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. Bill Gates unlockingtechnologycompassion Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete. Bill Hybels compassionchristiancharacter Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There's just too much at stake. Bill Hybels life-is-too-shortcompassionchristian One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff. Bill Nighy regretcompassionkindness One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything. Bill Nighy compassiontwopeople All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion. Bill Vaughan compassionspiritualchildren Today, rather than talk in terms of ideology or ideas like socialism, I think more important issues to discuss are things like compassion and accountability. Billy Bragg accountabilitycompassionthinking I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering. Billy Graham tragedycompassionsuffering We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV) Billy Graham scripturecompassionsuffering Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general. Biz Stone wifecompassionanimal Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher. B.K.S. Iyengar compassioninspiringteacher Death is unimportant to a yogi; he does not mind when he is going to die. What happens after death is immaterial to him. He is only concerned with life-with how he can use his life for the betterment of humanity. Having undergone various types of pain in his life and having acquired a certain mastery over pain, he develops compassion to help society and maintains himself in purity and holiness. The yogi has no interest beyond that. B.K.S. Iyengar paincompassionhumanity If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them. I am just a link in the process. If I don't take anything personally, then I can do great work without flagging. The Dalai Lama once said, 'Try with all your might - to work very, very hard - to make the world a better place, and if all your efforts are to no avail . . . no hard feelings!' Bo Lozoff compassionspiritualheart I have been uplifted by the extraordinary power of the American heart - by those armies of compassion, who are willing to cross town or cross the globe to minister to those they've never met and will never see again. Bob Dole armycompassionheart When you cease to exist, then who will you blame? Bob Dylan ceaseblamecompassion If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way. Bob Dylan compassionhandsway When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion. Bob Horner losercompassionpeople Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern for fame, profit, social position, or recognition expresses the activity of Chenrezig. Bokar Rinpoche benefitscompassionheart«678910111213141516»
