What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you...

Who doesn’t want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated – it matters…that people matter.

Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most...

It’s easy to make a mess when you’re not the one who has to clean it up.

We each have the power to give. It’s the most gratifying feeling ever. By reaching out to help another human being you’re sending ripples of positive change.

…and as he begged with tears in his eyes, I felt compassion for him.

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...

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the ‘true colors’ of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different...

To be human is, primarily, to embrace that we are human with strengths and weaknesses, and that our humanity is preordained to seek the Truth, Good and Beauty as part of our humanity. To be...

purveyors of hope.” They help me to know that beyond every mountain I face there is a path…even if I can’t see it from the valley.

Those who’ve left their bootprints in the trenches are those who value human life most. They get unwanted glimpses into the savage nature we really have underneath all the expensive clothes and moisturized skin. This...

People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

Si su pasado fuera tu pasado, si su dolor fuera tu dolor, si su nivel de conciencia fuera tu nivel de conciencia, pensarías y actuarías exactamente como él o ella. Esta compresión trae consigo perdón,...

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

If you don’t love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.

I was grateful to Ben the way you are grateful to someone who is unexpectedly kind.

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 place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But...

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else’s suffering flaring in your own nerves. Pity is a projection of, a lament for, the self. All those people...

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

[W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own...

In our hearts… there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a...

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

By strengthening our compassion, we give fuel to our courage and determination.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Give Compassion: Every day the average person fights epic battles never told just to survive.

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.

We cannot own each other, Bo. We can only offer what is ours to give.

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

May your GodExtend to youThe same LoveAnd CompassionYou have ProvidedTo Others.

The degree of your mindset will confine you – just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world’s hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman’s tenderness.

Frequently, people confront us who seemed to be egging the world into calling them on their miserable actions so they can have the pleasure of angry vengeance or an excuse to attract attention. Our compassion...

While there is Ego, you will never be one with the universe… Or love your fellow man.

Dare to BeWhen a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.When something...

I don’t want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined by what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I’ve touched.

God’s people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a...

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we’re storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God’s eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it...

It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person.

Je dis seulement qu’il y a sur cette terre des fléaux et des victimes et qu’il faut, autant qu’il est possible, refuser d’êre avec le fléau. Cela vous paraîra peut-être un peu simple, et je...

The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity’s tendency toward “an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men.

The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.

When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.

The essence of the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) is about identifying the cause of our suffering & alleviating it.

One love, one heart, one destiny.