Quotes about Compassion

To build community, it is important to accept the insight of interbeing, of interconnectedness. We must realize that happiness is not an individual matter. Finding happiness through our separate, individual self is impossible.

True love doesn't contain suffering or attachment. It brings well-being to ourselves and others. True love is generated from within. With true love, you feel complete in yourself; you don't need something from outside. True love is like the sun, shining with its own light, and offering that light to everyone.

If you are happy, all of us will profit from it. Society will profit from it. All living beings will profit from it.

We do not produce mindfulness to chase away or fight our anger but to take good care of it.

if we face unpleasant feelings with care, affection, we can transform them to the kind that is healthy and that nourishes us.

You must always check things out by going to the person in question and asking for his or her help: "Dear one, I am suffering so much, help me please.

I have been offered the noble opportunity to join my voice with that of the Crucified as He cries out, 'Father, forgive them.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

The measure of society is how it treats the weakest members.