Quotes by Compassion we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world. Pema Chodron importantcompassionpeople Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage. Peter Coyote maturitycompassionpeople I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason. Peter Hedges compassionviewspeople May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul. Paulo Coelho compassionsoulheart No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism. Peter Kreeft hatecompassionage Desire happiness, aspire to gratitude, long for health, crave compassion, seek satisfaction, lust after God, however & whatever you perceive God to be, want to love yourself, others & everything around you more and more each day Peter McWilliams gratitudecompassionlove-you If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take part in theirs, as long as they do not harm the person or property of a non-consenting other, of course. IT'S JUST common sense. It's also constitutional and it forms the cornerstone of the American ideal: free individual expression, tolerance and compassion. Peter McWilliams compassionexpressionrights Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion. Peter Drucker compassionmotherworld Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout. Philip Kapleau lightcompassionwisdom Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain the water they drink lest they inadvertently cause the death of any micro-organisms - could never believe that he would be indifferent to the sufferings of domestic animals caused by their slaughter of food Philip Kapleau compassionanimalbelieve The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play. Philip Zimbardo powerfulcompassioncharacter Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth. Philip Pullman regretcompassionkindness Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy. Phillip Moffitt yieldcompassionkindness your actions live after you till this globe is dissolved; they pass inevitably down as an inheritance from one generation to another. ... decency and integrity, courage and compassion, are always well worth while; they are not lost, but pass on down the generations; we are indeed the heirs of all the ages. Phyllis Bentley compassionageintegrity I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love. Philip Yancey and-lovemercycompassion Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion. Phyllis McGinley compassionpracticekindness I should like to think that we'll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of COMPASSION for each other, where we say, 'Enough! Let us live as one!' Pierce Brosnan compassionearththinking The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion. Pico Iyer going-awaycompassionlove Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering. Pio of Pietrelcina naturecompassionlove If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. Pocahontas films-and-moviesstrangercompassion«8788899091929394959697»
