Compassion

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

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.

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.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I've got older, I can imagine it, I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.

My captors were definitely aware that what they were doing was wrong. It came out in small ways - occasionally through a show of guilt or compassion. One of the boys bought me a gift. Another used to sneak me acetaminophen tablets.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.

I can tell you and promise you that I've had struggles in my life. And I would love to have people understand that Mitt and I have compassion for people that are struggling.

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.

I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, but I don't waste time with people.

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.

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 believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

Thailand was built on compassion.

When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.

It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

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.

I am interviewing people with a spirit of genuine interest and compassion, and therefore, the general tone of the site is one of genuine interest and compassion. The moment that culture changes, 'Humans of New York' is no longer viable.

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other, they involve sharing goods, and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

I work with a group called Compassion & Choices in California. It's attempting to get death with dignity legalised in California, the idea being that so goes California, so goes the rest of the U.S., at least.

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.

One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and compassion, is 'Mannahatta.'

Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.

If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world.

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

We can prevent many people from becoming terrorists by truly listening to people who feel they've been treated unjustly and responding to their concerns with a sense of justice and compassion.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.

I don't think there's any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don't think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it's appropriate.

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.

Compassion is not defined in one form. There's no Indian compassion. There's no American compassion. It transcends nation, the gender, the age. Why? Because it is there in everybody. It's experienced by people occasionally.

There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America.

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Compassion knows that choosing the higher road in any situation is the most loving option for you.

We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.

Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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.

We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion, we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.

On January 21st of 2017, the day after I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced. We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone. But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.

That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.

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.

I'm not an activist, I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance of all who are created in the image of God.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion, constitutionality is no match with compassion.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Compassion is a two way street.

I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst.

I just believe as a Christian, we are to show love, we are to show compassion to people, not to point the finger, not to do this, but to do this - to love them, to welcome them, to embrace them.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.

One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Living the life I have lived - being raised by deaf parents, assimilating to a different culture, and the challenges I have faced over time - has given me insight to the fact that each person has their own complex, intricate story, and it's rarely what I suspect it is. We must have compassion and grace for each other. We must.

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 we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

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.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need.

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

My family has been rooted and intertwined with Jerusalem for generations, and I am among those who say every day, 'May You return to Your city, Jerusalem, with compassion.'

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

I'm a very good storyteller, I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.

'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney. They seemed to have no compassion, and they were always alone.

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury, it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

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.

The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself, there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.

When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything.

But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwashed and such a disconnect with what's actually happening. They don't realize what if it was their kids that were being put into the games? They just don't have the mindset to have that kind of compassion for people.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

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.

Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently.

If there was any creature in American culture more derided than the young girl... I know people will argue with me about that, but everything girls are into gets ridiculed. I have a lot of compassion in my heart for girls in their teens and twenties who are going through this particular passage, because I get it. It makes sense!

As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular compassion on those who hurt emotionally and physically. But we do not resemble the Suffering Servant when we take pains to show off our suffering.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers, rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph, killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.