Quotes about Compassion

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.