When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

Use the talents you’ve developed to create goodwill, to ease the burdens of those who are not as fortunate and to seek truth humbly, without insisting that you hold the only keys to it.

O Holy Spirit, give me a simple heart which will not retire within itself to savor its own sorrows, a heart magnanimous in giving itself, easily moved to compassion, a faithful, generous heart, which does...

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world – and unless we touch others, we’re out of touch with life.

Compassion dervies from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning “to suffer, undergo or experience.” So “compassion” means “to endure [something] with another person,” to put ourselves in somebody else’s shoes, to feel her...

I didn’t give up, I walked awayI had enough of accepting actions that were less than I deserved.So…I made a concious choiceTo honour myself,Before complementing another & If that’s what; has made you undeniably mad,...

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.

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

Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone’s feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love—the greatest of...

Tomorrow’s leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre – from the heart

Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.

If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

That’s how powerful you are, girl…You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that’s like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now...

First do no harm!

Spread your happiness to others and let them spread theirs to you.

We’re better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If...

Don’t look for the ninety percent of the darkness in a person’s soul. Look for the ten percent of light they have left, then lend them yours because light was meant to be shared.

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

The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the...

Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.

They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and soften the hardened.

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations,...

Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground. As you rise up from the...

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

The writing has a meaning only if it is penned down with the heart’s deep feeling.

I don’t want to live in the kind of world where we don’t look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I...

Quiet moments bring you closer to God. It’s your silent time within your own private sanctuary. People have so many things to talk about, worry about, think about, without giving themselves peace within. Quiet moments...

I’d always follow Nixon’s orders, but you can’t order somebody to be happy.

Our God is known for His compassion for the needy; let us be known for it as well.

Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart.

At the very crisis, when Satan seemed about to triumph, the Son of God came with the embassage of divine grace.

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It’s the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there...

All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.

[P]eople think of compassion as, like, kindness. The image comes to mind of some nice New Age guy bending to something with a look on his face like he’s about to cry. And I don’t...

Many people close themselves off from the world when they are under pressure. That is understandable. I have gone through periods when I didn’t want to meet people because I didn’t feel good about my...

is that so often they ignore the key teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, like the doctrine of love. So often we ask God to be on our side instead of asking that we...

People think a relationship is give & take, but i see it as give & give, & there is no greater gift than the love & compassion within your heart.

The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them.

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn’t born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his...

(…) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that’s what he was for doing that thing to that woman. Come down out of the skies,...

How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.

Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!

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...

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