Everything is going to be alright’ doesn’t mean stubbing your toe won’t hurt anymore, but it reinforces that what takes place today, good or bad, is just a small piece of the larger puzzle

It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others.

A joke is never a joke if it is at the expense of another person’s feelings

If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue....

Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It...

Let happiness bloomIn the freshness of your mind,In the gentle wind of your thoughts.On the ground of kindness and compassion.

What matters in relationship isn’t how you see each other, but whether you see each other.

Contemplating this suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.

Together, we will not fail Oregonians, … Oregon will be prepared, and they will receive the competence and compassion from government they should expect.

She considered compassion the highest virtue, but that night on Obstetric Ward B, it had had a twin sister whose face was invisible to Carla. The suffering women, however, had recognized it immediately: condemnation.

Christmas is the spark within our hearts that ignites as each day grows closer and burns brightly with the promise of compassion, love and generosity of spirit.

It is sad but so many tragedies can be avoided, if we extend a little bit of love to one another.

Aberrant is not abhorrent

Love and accept everyone for who they are, for where they are in life. That is compassion.

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.

There is a good deal of the Nietzschean standpoint in this verse. It is the evolutionary and natural view. Of what use is it to perpetuate the misery of tuberculosis, and such diseases, as we...

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics,” Ford said, “then something is the matter with politics.

If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!

I’m just going to love you through this.

Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

There are these amazing little seeds called compassion. You should grow some.

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

With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle!” He added with a pause: “Remember...

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

Maybe you’ve gotten through something and when you did you thought, I am leaving that behind and will never return. And that’s a great way of thinking…for selfish jerks.If we actually care about people other...

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really people without resentment, without hate, she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who...

This is, perhaps, the greatest challenge of our time – to love in the absence of any immediate rewards for our love.

We hope they will realize that human nature contains both compassion and cruelty and that we all are capable of both. In either case, you are responsible. Nobody gets off free.

Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we...

Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.

SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954) ‘Without compassion a man is no longer human.’ So states Taira.

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession....

For him I was like the land, something to care for…well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land more than me. He needed constant cultivation, or the fruit turned wild.

Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness

Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.

Patience has all the time it needs.

Infusing the cultural war with love, respect and empathy is the responsibility of every one who cares about the health and wellbeing of women, our families and communities, and our democracy.

over-identify” with thoughts and feelings, so that we are caught up and swept away by negativity.

Be a gift, a light, a blessing as far as the eye can see to answer a call as well as a genuine, compassionate heart can reach.

…It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life.

For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one’s joy with others who do...

The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above,...

If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.

Those who really can receive bread from a stranger and smile in gratitude, can feed many without even realizing it. Those who can sit in silence with their fellow man not knowing what to say...

Umana cosa è l’aver compassione agli afflitti; e come che a ciascuna persona stea bene, a coloro è massimamente richiesto li quali già hanno di conforto avuto mestiere, e hannol trovato in alcuni: fra’ quali,...

Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they look for a place to dump it....

No daylight to separate us.Only kinship. Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it. Soon we imagine, with God, this circle of compassion. Then we imagine no one...