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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings. -- Ram Dass
Compassion dissolves ignorance. -- Alaric Hutchinson
Compassion is an act of love. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self -- Russell Simmons
Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves. -- Pema Chodron
Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures. -- Eckhart Tolle
Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other. -- Nhat Hanh
The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive. -- Dalai Lama
Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the way of the fundamental principle that we are similar to, connected with, and part of everything else. -- Deena Metzger
Compassion can be learned through example -- Renae A. Sauter
Compassion is one of the highest states of consciousness that you can choose to assist you in times of enormous pain. -- Debbie Ford
Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now. -- Brad Warner
Compassion
is not helpless
pity, but an
awareness and
determination
that demands
action. -- Dalai Lama
Compassion is the religion of the heart. -- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility. -- Dalai Lama
What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Compassion is the true healer of trauma. -- Sylvia Carlson
Compassion takes imagination. -- Jennifer Beals
Compassion is born from understanding suffering. We all should learn to embrace our own suffering, to listen to it deeply, and to have a deep look into its nature. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Embrace compassion without exception. -- Janice Anderson
Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count. -- Rue Mcclanahan
Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It's always with us. It always has been, and always will be. When it arises in us, we've simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Real compassion only exists in silence -- Petra Hermans
I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival. -- Dalai Lama
Compassion is an action word with no boundaries. -- Prince
Compassion is a quality which impels one to perform sacrifices. -- Radhanath Swami
With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment. -- Christina Baldwin
Great compassion is the root of altruistic action, the object of amazement to the world;there is no greater source of help and happiness. -- Dalai Lama Xiv
Life can be very hard sometimes and you wonder why, but a little compassion is sometimes all anyone needs to get by. -- Heather Wolf
principle, per-sis tence, and compassion - three -- John Wooden
Be the compassion you seek. -- Bryant Mcgill
Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us -- Zoran
Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound. -- George Bernard Shaw
Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction -- Dalai Lama
Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. YOUR devotion to helping others is an expression of YOUR greatness. -- Widad Akreyi
Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times. -- Joan D. Chittister
Compassion needs new approach and new outlook with the way you see the world. -- Amit Ray
Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness. -- Billy Graham
When we think of other beings with compassion, this makes us happiest. When we consider how to help others avoid suffering and give them contentment, we, ourselves, are the first to benefit. -- David Michie
Everyone deserves compassion. -- Michael Sheen
A seed cannot grow in stone. Compassion is the fertile soil where life grows. -- Amit Ray
Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives. -- Dalai Lama
Compassion is not only relevant to those who are blameless victims, but also to those whose suffering stems from failures, personal weakness, or bad decisions. You know, the kind you and I make every day. Compassion, -- Kristin Neff
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome. -- Gary Zukav
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 is peace and joy finally for you too. -- Frederick Buechner
Compassion is born when we discover in the center of our own existence not only that God is God and man is man, but also that our neighbor is really our fellow man. -- Henri J.m. Nouwen
Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content. -- Dalai Lama Xiv
Compassion is contempt with a human face. -- John Mccarthy
Compassion involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. -- Pema Chodron
Compassion goes out looking for suffering, scouring the earth for poverty and misery and pain, the same way the cops look for criminals. -- Donald O'donovan
Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you. -- Deepak Chopra
Let us think about our attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to respond to what is happening around us -- Kishore Bansal
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves. -- Mason Cooley
What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results. -- Harry Browne
Compassion is that special ingredient that is often missed, and it makes a difference in building a positive environment. -- Farshad Asl
By compassion one can be brave. -- Laozi
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general. -- Madeleine L'engle
Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival. -- Karen Armstrong
I think compassion is an important quality in people in general. -- Shannon Elizabeth
Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself. -- Allan Lokos
A simple way to access compassion is to see with the eye of your heart. -- Catherine Carrigan
Compassion is the basis of morality. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion may not fix a problem. It may not undo a wrong, but it may bring a little light into the life of someone who is suffering. -- Karlyle Tomms
Compassion is the shortcut to connection. -- Marilyn Suttle
Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother's ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide. -- Amit Ray
Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering. -- Shinzen Young
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others. -- Will Tuttle
Compassion is the willingness to play in the field of dreams even though you are awake. -- Matthew Flickstein
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things. -- Thomas Merton
Without compassion, you will never truly connect with another human being. -- Emma J. Bell
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
Truth is on the side of compassion. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
True compassion does not stem from the pleasure of feeling close to one person or another, but from the conviction that other people are just like me and want not to suffer but to be happy, and from a commitment to help them overcome what causes them to suffer. -- Dalai Lama Xiv
This book stresses repeatedly that it is unconditional compassion for ourselves that leads naturally to unconditional compassion for others. -- Pema Chodron
Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family. -- Wayne Dyer
Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry. -- Ryuho Okawa
It seems that for some people the idea of compassion entails a complete disregard for or even a sacrifice of their own interests. This is not the case. In fact, you first of all have to have a wish to be happy yourself - if you don't love yourself like that, how can you love others? -- Dalai Lama
ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION. -- Dalai Lama
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
-- Thomas Browne
Within all beings there is the seed of perfection. However, compassion is required in order to activate that seed which is inherent in our hearts and minds ... -- Dalai Lama Xiv
If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Compassion means entering the suffering of another in order to lead the way out. -- Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Even the darkest minds can be overcome with compassion -- C.e. Dimond
Less judgement more compassion. -- Nikki Rowe
It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance. -- Brene Brown
Love and accept everyone for who they are, for where they are in life. That is compassion. -- Kristi Bowman
Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding. -- Deepak Chopra
Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion. -- Charles Colson
Compassion is no substitute for justice. -- Rush Limbaugh
True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed. -- Jaggi Vasudev
True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it. -- Daniel Goleman
In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening. -- Gautama Buddha
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. -- Eric Hoffer
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. -- Albert Schweitzer
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. -- Dante Alighieri
Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody. -- Max Lucado
Compassion is a beautiful grace that releases hate and fearful emotions. Through the power of compassion, when put in delicate circumstances with dysfunctional human beings, rather than loathing their behaviour, you can be compassionate to their internal suffering and love them unconditionally. -- Christopher Dines
People need to have compassion for others. -- Frank Bruno
