C Quotes
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“Compassion becomes an integral part of our spiritual
work, and we are truly motivated by it to help awaken everyone we come into contact with, in hopes that they can
see the light and love in their hearts, and be inspired to
do the same for others. Together we can help spread less
suffering on the planet, and carry on a goal for universal
awakening.”
Source: Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
“Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect, compassion, and unconditional love. When we mistreat animals, we mistreat ourselves. When we destroy animal spirits and souls, we destroy our own spirits and souls.”
“Compassion begins when we realise that we are all struggling in our own way”
Source: The Silence Between the Sighs
“Compassion begins with attention.”
“Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.”
“Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.”
“Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.”
“Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.”
“Compassion by design can be the part of new social robots, drone based warfare robots and the new cyborgs. Dehumanization or degrading human quality or developing negative attitudes towards any human group should not be allowed through our DeepCompassion algorithms and frameworks. The superhumanization algorithms will try to empower the robots and the cyborgs with super positive qualities of compassion, caring and high human values.”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0
“Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.”
“Compassion can be learned through example”
Source: An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
“Compassion can be lost as easily as species, and when it goes, then plants and animals are sure to follow. It is not enough simply to bequeath biodiversity to future generations without also passing on a sense of its significance and, perhaps hardest of all, a genuine love of life on Earth.”
Source: Few and Far Between: On The Trail of Britain's Rarest Animals
“Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.”
“Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental attitude based on the wish for others to be free of their suffering and is associated with a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect towards others.”
Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living
“Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.”
“Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.”
“Compassion can help you to be present right in this moment. Compassion can release your trapped life-energy and blossom your life.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Compassion can release your trapped dark energy of life, and blossom many flowers in your life.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.”
“Compassion can win over confusion.”
Source: Spring 2020: The Season Of Self-Discovery: Time to find freedom, hope and happiness
“Compassion certainly seems to be wasted on you, sir!’ she said tartly.
‘Yes, of course it is. Besides, I like you, and I shan’t if you pity me.”
Source: Black Sheep
“Compassion changes your interpretation and perception about the world, people and incidents. It provides the direct link with the cosmic oneness.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.”
“Compassion comes from the heart, not the government.”
“Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable conditions for humanness. In the arrangement of “lawfulness” in Jesus’ time, as in the ancient empire of Pharaoh, the one unpermitted quality of relation was compassion. Empires are never built or maintained on the basis of compassion.”
Source: The Prophetic Imagination
“Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural, but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.”
“Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.”
“Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“Compassion directed to oneself is humility.”
Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge
“Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.”
“Compassion dissolves ignorance.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“Compassion does not need any special preparation, place or time. You can start it anywhere and anytime. Try it at home, work, school —or anywhere! The more you cultivate compassion the more will be your fulfillment, resilience, patience, grit, endurance and equanimity.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.”
Source: The spectator
“Compassion doesn't have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.”
“Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.”
“Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.”
“Compassion drives us to cry for those who are in pain and suffering. Compassion dares us to move into the unknown where it can injure us.”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Intelligence
“Compassion, empathy, and humility can only arise out of recognizing that our common desires are differently expressed.”
Source: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
“Compassion encompasses everything that eliminates the sufferings of humanity”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0
“Compassion finds its power in action.”
Source: Leading From The Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders
“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.”
“Compassion for humanity begins with compassion and respect for all beings.”
“Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.”
“Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.”
“Compassion for others is a mark of wisdom.”
“Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.”
“Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.”
“Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.”