(523 quotes found)
“It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked.”
Haile Selassie
“Make no judgments where you have no compassion”
Anne McCaffrey
“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”
Erma Bombeck
“Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.”
Thomas Merton
“For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem.”
Dalai Lama
“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
Bell Hooks
“Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience”
Bible
“When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.”
Peter De Vries
“Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.”
Arnold Toynbee