When emotions turn and stay sour, when thoughts become cynical and judgmental, good and compassionate treatment is on the line. Helpers who become sour and cynical tend to begrudge their high need clients for their...

We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves.

After all I’ve seen, if I hadn’t learned compassion, I wouldn’t be worth much.

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be better person.

The papers say we’re married, but it’s the heart that writes the love story.

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee...

When you know the knower within, you don’t need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don’t need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to...

The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.

To develop understanding and compassion for who we are as introverts, we must be able to explore who we are, what makes us happy, what makes us unhappy, and what oursubsequent needs are.

Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the...

Should I, too, prefer the title of ‘non-Jewish Jew’? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished friend Mathilde...

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions … and faith, the bravest of convictions.

Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking...

Some very hungry people gathered to discuss how to distribute a small amount of food. It was understood that each church was supposed to take care of its own. The local Episcopal rector said, “My...

Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn’t consist of any colours or shades that you know. Trying to describe that colour would be as difficult as...

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don’t know what...

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does...

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.