C Quotes
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“Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.”
“Compassion is an action, not just a feeling. Small gestures of kindness and understanding can have profound impacts. Empathy strengthens communities and fosters trust among individuals.”
“Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.”
“Compassion is an alternate perception”
“Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.”
“Compassion is an essential element of love.”
“Compassion is an inbuilt human nature. It is the human potential to reach the higher evolution of consciousness. Compassion comprises feelings, emotions, sentiment and understanding.”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. People don't become inured to what they are shown — if that's the right way to describe what happens — because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.”
“Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means 'to suffer with,' which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering. The emotion of compassion springs from the recognition that the human experience is imperfect.”
Source: Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
“Compassion is concern of others' well being.”
“Compassion is contagious. Every moment we choose compassion, we move towards a better world.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Compassion is determining one's contribution should go to a needy human and not a greedy one.”
“Compassion is divinity in action.”
“Compassion is easily forsaken in the midst of prosperity, even when this prosperity is God given.”
“Compassion is essential, but it’s not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them.”
“Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody – human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird.”
“Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.”
Source: The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
“Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.”
“Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.”
“Compassion is fruit of charity.”
“Compassion is given freely with no expectation of reward.”
Source: The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart
“Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.”
“Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide.”
“Compassion is like springwater under the ground. Your life is like a pipe that can tap into that underground spring. When you tap into it, water immediately comes up. So drive your pipe into the ground. Tap into the water of compassion.”
Source: You Have to Say Something
“Compassion is love that rolls up its sleeves, and gets to work.”
“Compassion is mindfulness. If you can maintain that awareness, you are protected. Your seeds of irritation and anger will not be watered and you can listen for one hour without being affected by what she says. You don't want to correct her, even if her speech is full of wrong perceptions and accusations—you feel only compassion, "Oh dear, she is the victim of so many wrong perceptions." You don't want to punish or criticize her because you have compassion.”
Source: Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other
“Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.”
“Compassion is more than empathy in action. It’s about being motivated in many different ways to make a positive difference in each others’ lives by using our in-born strengths as a starting point.”
Source: Compassionate Accountability: How Leaders Build Connection and Get Results
“Compassion is more than simply tolerating: When someone “tolerates” something, it implies temporary patience in enduring a particular circumstance. (It can also suggest a subtle level of arrogance as you are tolerating a less evolved or immature behavior.) And though it is true that cultivating tolerance can open the door to feeling true compassion, they are not the same thing. Authentic compassion does not require strained effort. It does not require struggle to maintain. It resonates from a deeper expression of empathy from within. Tolerance is always cultivated through personal will, while inherent compassion arises effortlessly through sincere empathetic human connection.”
“Compassion is my God, my strength, and my song of life.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Compassion is never compassion until you cross the street and go do something about it.”
“Compassion is never enough. Nor is the hunger for vengeance. But, for now, for what awaits us, perhaps they will do. We are the Bonehunters, and sail to another name. Beyond Aren, beyond Raraku and beyond Y’Ghatan, we now cross the world to find the first name that will be truly our own. Shared by none other. We sail to give answer.”
Source: Reaper's Gale
“Compassion is no substitute for justice.”
“Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.”
“Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.”
“Compassion is not a matter of charity, pity, or sympathy. It is a result of seeing the interconnectedness of all things and recognizing that this is a participatory universe in which we are all one.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.”
“Compassion is not a popular virtue”
Source: The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah
“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 relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
Source: The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
“Compassion is not a seasonal feeling.
Every real human must show it at all times.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.”
“Compassion is not a sometime action; it's an every time passion! You can't be compassionate for less than 7 days in one week... That's first class hypocrisy!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.”
Source: I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from
“Compassion is not against anger. When anger disappears, compassion is. Compassion is not to be fought for; it is not against passion. When passion disappears, compassion is. Compassion is your nature.”
“Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.”
“Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself.”
Source: Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living