We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That’s a wealth that’s priceless. You can’t buy compassion.
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.
Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.
The representatives of young professionals and woman entrepreneurs deserve seats at the big table to evolve viable, efficient, and sustainable solutions for problems the world is faced with. Without their participation, there will always be a deficit of compassion and innovation.
That’s the difference between a great comic and a bad comic – one has great instincts and has a lot of compassion and can feel what’s right and what’s wrong.
In fact, if you think hard about it, animal conservation should actually be anathema to the Darwin-loving liberal agenda, which holds up evolution – and not altruistic compassion – as the final word on the survival of a species.
If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.
I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
This idea of bringing awareness to our lives seems like a good idea, right? We’ll gain a productive, enjoyable, reflective life and be able to extend compassion, empathy, and joy to others. That seems like a pretty good deal.
The reduction in compassion that happens when we’re all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
There is no shaming in my house, we don’t parent like that. We don’t shame or punish, they’re communicated with with as much compassion and lack of frustration as we can muster.
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It’s one of the most important elements of being a human being.
I am very grateful for the opportunities I’ve had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.
Sometimes I, as a public official, turn to Scripture or hymns – especially hymns, because sometimes we Catholics don’t have the Scriptures memorized like we should – to help me explain a public policy position or an idea or to be able to articulate it better when you’re talking about justice or mercy or compassion.
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Pierre was an extraordinary teacher – he really was one of the best, and he raised the boys so, so well: to have a global view, to have compassion, to be humanitarians, to really be concerned about alleviating suffering.
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
There is no question Angelina makes a difference in our world by bringing awareness to so many causes. Her compassion for humanity alone always makes me honored to call her my sister.
Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.
In the movie ‘Star Trek 3: The Return of Spock,’ I’m a really bad Klingon, and I really enjoyed playing that – somebody who’s totally unscrupulous. It’s like he was not genetically equipped to feel compassion or sensitivity. Just outright evil without apology.
My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
Repression is the enemy of civilization – so keep dreaming, because the dreams we dream today will provide the love, the compassion, and the humanity that will narrate the stories of our lives tomorrow.
Marriage has given me the gift of compassion.
If we accept ourselves as animals, and have empathy and tolerance, compassion to others, understand that humans are territorial, aggressive and have gender aspects, then we can change things.
My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
We don’t want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
My dad’s a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity – intuition and compassion and tenderness – and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.
Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
As the human race, let’s continue to show love, compassion, and respect towards one another.
The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who’d rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we’re all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose… When you connect with that love and that compassion, that’s when everything unfolds.
Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.
Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don’t think anybody who has a connection to God and God’s understanding and depth of compassion who’s gonna say ‘no.’
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
Boundaries, and countries, if we don’t have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency.
I’ve spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that’s just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.
Whenever we love or care for anything in our lives we’re willing to respond with care and with compassion, but if something that we love or someone we love is threatened, we’re also willing to respond with courage.
