Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting...

The heart that gives, gathers.

I believe the world is divided in three groups: givers, takers and the few that can balance both impulses. Giving and loving is a beautiful thing. It is the currency of compassion and kindness, it is what separates good people from the rest. And without it, the world would be a bleak place. If you...

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, “There’s a man in there!”Lincoln’s good news, he confided from the heights...

Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.

My daughter said, ‘we have to do something,’ and she called the Red Cross, … She has a lot of compassion and made me proud.

If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.

My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my...

Gods tender mercies are over all His creatures.

He had the compassion of a vivisectionist.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?

Teach love and compassion to all. Go back to the proper understanding of every verse. Teach every young Muslim the ability to understand the meaning of friendship that has no borders while at the same time teach them to recognize who are the real UNJUST who do not deserve to be a friend.

Don’t question what you don’t understand unless you’re asking questions seeking to understand.

Until people learn to love others more than they love to hate others, not much will change in this world.

The news can be poison to your soul, don’t let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged.

If you want to find money, focus on people. If you want to lose people, focus on money.

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one’s own sensitivity with suffering of one’s fellow human beings.” (p. 16-17)

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free

… Whereas Hunt recommended universal charity, Keats, feeling himself ‘in a Mist’, relied on a knowing passivity: ‘Men should bear with each other – there lives not the Man who may not be cut up, aye hashed to pieces on his weakest side’.

You are the very creator and co-creator of your own reality. When you allow yourself to remember what you already know about yourself on the spirit level, you shine the light of unconditional love, compassion and understanding. You become more of who you truly are, when you choose compassion and kindness. It must start from...

Service is a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug. It’s these simple acts that matter most, because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition.

I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don’t imagine that it’s there; it’s there waiting to be noticed.

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.

To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.

To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie...

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

Help them, but don’t make friends with them.

Compassion is born out of lovingkindness.It is born of knowing our oneness, not just thinking about it or wishing it were so. It is born out of the wisdom of seeing things exactly as they are.

When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.

A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it.

The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love.

Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!

He is a principled man, and compassionate, someone who will remind himself of your best qualities while struggling to forgive your worst. In short, he is a friend.

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in...

Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.

Death is a tragedy whether it is in the death of one girl-woman in London or seventy-seven men, women, and children in Norway. We know this, but perhaps it needs to be said over and over again so we do not forget.I have never considered compassion a finite resource. I would not want to live...

Pardon all runners,All speechless, alien winds,All mad waters.Pardon their impulses,Their wild attitudes,Their young flights, their reticence.When a message has no clothes onHow can it be spoken.

It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When we do this we will be able first of all to face and accept our own limitations. As long as we secretly adore ourselves, our own deficiencies will remain to torture us with an apparent defilement. But...

Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many...

It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.

Maybe, it is just enough to believe with a positive heart that people didn’t let you down. It could be just this: They couldn’t give you the compassion you really wanted based on where their heart is right now. Maybe, not now, but years later they will catch the memory of you in a quiet...

Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have on our own.