Best compassion & should Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The diary of a young girl

“When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height; and when we recall the infinite depth of our fall through sin we should not refuse to believe that the virtue which has been killed in us will rise again. For God can accomplish both these things: He can come down and illumine our intellect with spiritual knowledge, and He can raise up the virtue within us and exalt it with Himself through works of righteousness.”

“Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by compassion. That means engaging ourselves in compassion in action.”

Should Mind Mean Action Levels Compassion Activity Training Engaging

Author:Gelek Rimpoche

“Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.”

Should Desire Nations Compassion Study Sacrifice Models Ideals Prosperity Fortitude Reins Great Women Ideal Life

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.”

Should Humanity Work Compassion Progress Adequate Truthfulness Right Conduct

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?”

Men World Should Made Facts Values Compassion Creation Humility Vegan Units Stewardship Veganism Presumption Small Parts

Book:The range of light: photographs

Source: The range of light: photographs

“We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?”

Love Should Heart May Compassion Opinion Childhood Acceptance Meetings Bars Disrespectful Moral Growth

Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.”

Way Giving Feels Should Helping Action Certain Results Compassion Yoga Concerned Infinite Karma Selfless Karma Yoga Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest weights, but I can not take the responsibility off my shoulders. Because the way we use our strength defines our fate. What traces will I leave on my path into the future? Do we really have to kill in order to live? My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as weakness. My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.”

Way Needs Should I Can Use Used Lying Order Causes Responsibility Compassion Path Fate Seeing Weakness Weight Victim Harm Shoulders Lifts Can Not True Strength

Author:Patrik Baboumian

“Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.”

Should Children Made Compassion Principles Adults Instruction Undertakings

Author:Catherine McAuley

“What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion... The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery.”

“The Pope, if nothing else, should be a Catholic. If he were to announce that women would make great priests, except it's a pity that more of them aren't gay, because of the greater compassion they could bring to the task, it might endear him to liberal Catholic commentators , but it would make him something other than a Catholic, in the true sense.”

Ifs Should Might Compassion Greater Humour Gay Tasks Catholic Pity Priests Pope Commentators

Author:Declan Lynch

“Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?”

Ifs Needs Should War Suffering Peace Compassion Trade Obstacles Boundaries Generosity Nationalism Globalization

Author:Howard Zinn

“I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client should be in jail for rendering kindness and compassion, primarily because the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan is a religious nut.”

World Should States Whole Religious Compassion Kindness Atheism Television Whole World Jail Nuts Governors Clients Michigan Kindness And Compassion Rendering

Author:Geoffrey Fieger

“Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.”

Thinking Should Order Results Compassion Letting Go Connections Who You Are Authenticity Imperfect Be Who You Are Compassion For Yourself

Author:Brené Brown

“For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.”

Should Years Believe Government Age Past I Believe Decision Compassion Extraordinary Pregnancy Adoption Interfere Attorney Unplanned Pregnancy

Author:Ann McLane Kuster

“It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.”

Should Sides Compassion Judging Severity

Book:The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed

Source: The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed

“To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.”

Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

“Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.”

“Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.”

Knows Should Persons Two Hate Evil Love Is Compassion Virtue Ignorance Intelligent Intelligence Superiors Cruelty Arrogance Intolerance Gentleness Forbearance Intelligent Person

Author:J. Martin Klotsche

“We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.”

Should Humor Political Compassion Program Army Fund Political Humor Faith Based

Author:George W. Bush

“If we start worrying whether our nose is too big or too small, we should think, “What if I had no head? - now that would be a problem!” As long as we have life, we should rejoice. If everything doesn't go exactly as we'd like, we can accept it. If we contemplate impermanence deeply, patience and compassion will arise. We will hold less to the apparent truth of our experience, and the mind will become more flexible. Realizing that one day this body will be buried or burned, we will rejoice in every moment we have rather than make ourselves or others unhappy.”

“I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.”

Should Mean Body Spirit Compassion Should Have Sick Pity Abundance Compassionate Detrimental

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.”

Should Mistake Compassion Strange Duty Intellectual Paid Charity Calm Debt Fulfillment Merit Severe

Book:The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...

Source: The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...

“The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.”

Men Should Real Loss Compassion Society Lows Tragedy Cheapness

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures

“We men should be ashamed of ourselves. I think 85 percent of men are dangerous to women. We need to change to a values system nested in compassion and generosity, and women have carried that torch throughout history.”

Thinking Men Needs Should Values Compassion Dangerous Percent Generosity Ashamed Torches Need A Change Value Systems

Author:Patch Adams

“I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice.”

People Thinking Want Should Writing Social Justice Consciousness Compassion Empathy Social Justice Environmental Impulse Sustainability

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“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.”

“Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion.”

People Ifs Should Made Pay Attention Mistake Compassion Faults Excuse Pay Attention No Excuses Same Mistakes No Sympathy No Compassion Making The Same Mistakes

Author:Donald Trump

“I should like to think that we'll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of COMPASSION for each other, where we say, 'Enough! Let us live as one!'”

Thinking Should Enough Earth Consciousness Compassion Collectives Finding Peace Collective Consciousness

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.”

“We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations we should do so with compassion.”

Knows Way Should Trying Looks Individual Nations Compassion Know How Best Way

Author:Ger Duany

“If as we accept God is the perfect epitome of justice, mercy, goodness, and compassion, then our efforts to define the divine will through Sharia should be predicated on achieving a result that is merciful compassionate.”

Ifs Should Justice Perfect Results Effort Compassion Accepting Achieve Divine Goodness Mercy Compassionate Merciful Epitome Sharia Divine Will

Author:Mark Durie

“For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.”

Should Mind Persons Helping Compassion Enemy Practice Essentials And Love Grateful Tolerance Cherish Be Grateful Tranquil

Book:In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy

Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy

“Tonight, the news debated the intelligence of a bear. And it got my wondering why humanity rewards itself for passing tests that we create. And that got me wondering why we care. I've studied enough wars to know that the intelligence of the target isn't on the mind of the person with the gun. Maybe we should stop talking about intelligence and start discussing our grades in compassion.”

Knows Should Mind Persons War Enough Care Humanity Talking Compassion Wonder Bears News Gun Tests Rewards Passing Passings Grades Tonight Target Discussing Passing A Test

Author:Paige

“I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something like compassion, on getting people to care more for others without putting ourselves in their shoes.”

People Thinking Should Care Decision Compassion Moral Focus Shoes Engagement Discouraging Moral Decisions

Author:Paul Bloom

“Government's running the student loan program; what in the world could be wrong with it? If the government's running it, if Obama's taken it over, and he's got a lot of compassion, a big heart, loves people, what could possibly be wrong with it? And then the subject of tuition came up, and how come tuition never gets cut? Why does tuition always go up? Guarantee, folks, when you subsidize something, if you run a university and the government's gonna subsidize parts of your operation, why in the world should you cut anything?”

“You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to deal with an uncomfortable, painful moment. You should be with a person capable of great compassion and understanding.”

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Author:Mallory Ortberg

“When we hunt or fish, we deliberately kill a defenseless being who wishes us no harm. This is a direct violation of the First Precept. It is absolutely forbidden to Buddhists. As to eating meat, we know that the only way we can obtain it is for an animal to be killed. Therefore, when we eat meat, it is our intent that an innocent animal should die to satisfy our addiction to flesh. And that underlying intention, no matter how well hidden behind a smokescreen of rationalizations will block the growth of compassion and create negative karma.”

“Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.”

Ifs Should Said Hard Kids Suffering Hate Jesus Challenges Church Compassion Limits Neighbor Disciple Our Love Hate You Hard Things About Family

Author:Shane Claiborne

“I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.”

Should Believe I Believe Compassion Kindness Yoga Kindness And Compassion Instantaneous

Author:Judith Hanson Lasater

“You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The practice should open us up, and crack open our hearts again and again.”

Want Should Heart Compassion Practice Becoming Cracks Compassionate Again And Again Containers Stepping Back

Author:Judith Hanson Lasater

“Animals should have rights and should be treated with compassion and empathy; we are their caretakers. If you don't have it in your heart to help them, then just leave them alone and do no harm.”

Ifs Should Heart Helping Animal Compassion Rights Empathy Should Have Harm Treated Caretakers Compassion And Empathy

Author:Katie Cleary

“You know, it's trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. Not only are there a lot of outsiders intervening but this also involves a vicious internal war. There are many who believe the Alawites will fight to the death because they believe that, should they lose power, the majority would take, would show no compassion for them. They ruled that country for a long time, ruthlessly. It is a vicious civil war that makes one want to cry every day.”

Knows Want Should Trying Believe Long War Country Shows Fighting Loses Compassion Cry Long Time Majority Civil War Internals Outsiders Vicious Tubes Toothpaste Intervening No Compassion

Author:John Kasich

“If contemplation of other people's pain just increases distress, then I think we should see it in another way. If we don't center too much on ourselves, then [we] increase our courage and our determination to remedy the pain, not our distress. If we have unconditional compassion, then it increases our courage. So that's the difference, self-centered motivation versus altruistic motivation.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Should Self Pain Motivation Differences Compassion Too Much Determination Increase Contemplation Remedy Distress Versus Unconditional Another Way Self Centered

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.”

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Author:Lance B. Wickman

“A Christian should know that God is a Creator, that God is an entity that is all-powerful and all knowledgeable, God is everywhere and God is an entity filled with grace, love, compassion and forgiveness, that Jesus is the son of God and Jesus came on earth to explain to people in a very revolutionary way the nature of God, that God was not a stern judge who was keeping track of 600 or so rules and regulations that you had to keep in order to be acceptable to God.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.”

“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”

“If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.”

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