Quotes about Compassion

When you plant a tree, if it doesn't grow well, you don't blame the tree.

When you abstain from eating and drinking animal products, fewer animals are slaughtered, and you contribute less to climate degradation.

This is the nature of war: it turns us into enemies. People who have never met kill each other out of fear. War creates so much suffering—children become orphans, entire cities and villages are destroyed. All who suffer in such conflicts are victims.

With understanding and compassion, you will be able to heal the wounds in your heart, and the wounds in the world.

True love doesn't contain suffering or attachment. It brings well-being to ourselves and others.

The problem is not one of being wrong or right, but one of being more or less skillful.

Brushing my teeth and rinsing my mouth, I vow to use truthful and loving speech. When my mouth is fragrant with right speech, a flower blooms in the garden of my heart.

True happiness does not reside in the ill-considered consumption of goods paid for by the suffering, famine, and death of others, but in a life enlightened by the feeling of a constant responsibility for one's neighbor.

The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.

When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy.

We agreed that the true enemy of man is not man. Our enemy is not outside of us. Our true enemy is the anger, hatred, and discrimination that is found in the hearts and minds of man.

We do not expect a person always to be a flower, we have to understand his or her gardens as well.