- “No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.” ― Brené Brown, The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
- “There was is no skill or grace in being rude or obnoxious. There is transformation and growth in being compassionate and kind.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “As we grow older our sense of compassion becomes refined and matures; for we’ve received compassion for a lifetime of mistakes and mishaps.” ― R.J. Intindola
- “Be who you are, don’t be a pretender,if you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember.” ― Freequill
- “It is only kindness and love, which can change the human heart.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “As I’ve mentioned too often before, we are governed, and specifically our physicality is governed, by fairly strict rules, which are easily observable in nature. We have some freedom to manipulate some of these, but really not by very much. Everyone knows, or at least has the information, about the horrors of ignoring health issues and expecting your body to do what you want it to do with the least investment in it. Another “authority” telling you what you should do is not the answer.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “Shortly after I started hitting some notable milestones on my Spiritual journey, I went into a thrift store that benefits veterans, My eyes were quickly drawn to a dusty and tattered image of Christ laying mixed in with some other things on a shelf. I picked it up, And on it was written these words:”If you accept it…I would give you the gift of seeing yourself as I see you…”The truth and love of that image and simple words stopped me in my tracks and opened my heart. Since then I have received a wonderful gift, to know myself as an Eternal Spiritual Being, a Child of our Loving Father in Heaven….And no I didn’t buy it, I received the message loud and clear, So I left it there, in hopes that the image and words would speak to someone else’s Soul in the same way they had spoken to mine.” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- “Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they’ve been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.” ― Lemony Snicket
- “Then her heart opened wider than it ever had before, and all she saw before her, everywhere she looked, were people to love.” ― Scott Stabile
- “One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
- “People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.” ― Pino Caruso
- “Unity, though concerned with the larger group, is birthed by individuals when we’re at our compassion-filled, authentic best.” ― Laurie Buchanan, PhD
- “I can say, maybe I am ugliest for you, but my heart is beautiful that inspires only love, respect, and compassion for all the humanity.” ― Ehsan Sehgal
- “Through the practice of compassion and forgiveness, I was able to sustain my appreciation for her work and cope with the grief and disappointment I felt about the loss of this relationship. Practicing compassion enabled me to understand why she might have acted as she did and to forgive her. Forgiving means that I am able to see her as a member of my community still, one who has a place in my heart should she wish to claim it.” ― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
- “But Physician was a composed man, who performed neither on his own trumpet, nor on the trumpets of other people. Many wonderful things did he see and hear, and much irreconcilable moral contradiction did he pass his life among; yet his equality of compassion was no more disturbed than the Divine Master’s of all healing was. He went, like the rain, among the just and unjust, doing all the good he could, and neither proclaiming it in the synagogues nor at the corner of streets.” ― Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
- “By revealing to Tomas her dream about jabbing needles under her fingernails, Tereza unwittingly revealed that she had gone through his desk. If Tereza had been any other woman, Tomas would never have spoken to her again. Aware of that, Tereza said to him, Throw me out! But instead of throwing her out, he seized her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers, because at that moment he himself felt the pain under her fingernails as surely as if the nerves of her fingers led straight to his own brain.Anyone who has failed to benefit from the Devil’s gift of compassion (co-feeling) will condemn Tereza coldly for her deed, because privacy is sacred and drawers containing intimate correspondence are not to be opened. But because compassion was Tomas’s fate (or curse), he felt that he himself had knelt before the open desk drawer, unable to tear his eyes from Sabina’s letter. He understood Tereza, and not only was he incapable of being angry with her, he loved her all the more.” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- “Teach children the value of work and to work hard at everything they do. The virtue of compassion and value of appreciation of the hard work of others too.” ― Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
- “The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it; iron gates have no compassion to appeal to, nor fears to exploit, nor insecurities to use to one’s advantage. They are, however, operated by us – by beings of unlimited vulnerability and limited energy. Why waste time brute-forcing what can be easily circumvented by a clever façade and a crimson tongue?” ― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
- “Pain in the body is a clear indication, Something in the energy fields are blocking inner growth.” ― Nikki Rowe
- “You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t feed you…beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be. You can’t rely on how you look to sustain you. What actually sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful, is compassion–for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty inflames the heart and enchants the soul.” ― Lupita Nyong o
- “Some souls are like empty bench in an evening park, no one to take care. The role of compassionate artificial intelligence is to fulfill those souls with love and care.” ― Amit Ray, Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0 – AI with Blockchain, BMI, Drone, IOT, and Biometric Technologies
- “We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
- “I’m so very grateful that my life was so brutally and completely torn down so that it could be rebuilt from its foundation in a more meaningful way.I’m getting the feeling that another life tear down is coming, to be rebuilt once again in an even more meaningful way than the last time. I’m so very grateful for such an indestructible foundation that is ALWAYS prepared to support whatever good thing is built upon it.” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- “Ironically, many of the institutions that run the economy, such as medicine, education, law and even psychology are largely dependent upon failing health. If you add up the amounts of money exchanged in the control, anticipation and reaction to failing health (insurance, pharmaceutical research and products, reactive or compensatory medicine, related legal issues, consultation and therapy for those who are unwilling to improve their physical health and claim or believe the problem is elsewhere, etc.), you end up with an enormous chunk. To keep that moving, we need people to be sick. Then we have the extreme social emphasis placed on the pursuit and maintenance of a lifestyle based on making money at any cost, often at the sacrifice of health, sanity and well-being.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “He was breaking into pieces, falling, fluid, boundaryless, merging into Nani Maa, just one giant heart that felt her fear, her sadness, her goodness, her pride, her love, like his own.” ― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max’s Discontent
- “Kindness kindles kinship and kinship kindles a sense of community.” ― Abhijit Naskar, No Foreigner Only Family
- “It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.” ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
- “Of what use are words that don’t draw people closer together?” ― Marty Rubin
- “I am an artist, and a rebel one at that. I live in the voluptuous dimension of imagination, so if you’re expecting normalcy (dullness) from me, sorry to disappoint, but you’re quite mistaken. Ordinary is not my best attire, I’ve tried it and normal just never fit quite right. I will always be the crazy one who believes in magic, unicorns and impossible dreams. But also love, compassion and empathy.” ― Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
- “Compassion is the quality that takes us closest to the Divine within each one of us.” ― Dada J. P. Vaswani