“I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.” PeopleFeelsWritingHateFeltLosesCompassionLonelinessSorrowForgiving Author:Louise Penny
“Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have compassion for the suffering and self-sacrifice which they endured in carrying out those deeds. If their actions were free of suffering or sacrifice, then are they truly deserving of gratitude?” IfsLifeFeelsSelfActionSufferingCompassionSacrificeGratitudeDeedsImpossibilityDeservingSelf Sacrifice Author:Derek R. Audette
“When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.” MenFeelsHeartChildrenTodayEarthJesusBornLevelsCommonCompassionChristianityFireHigherDiseaseDeterminationHotMiseryHungerHungryBurningLiftsRisingMultitudesHigher LevelCommon ManChristmas DayNew Hope Book:The world is learning compassion Source: The world is learning compassion
“A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him because a man of understanding can understand the viewpoint of the other also. He knows why the other feels as he feels, he knows why the other is angry, because he knows his own self, and in knowing that, he has known all others.” IfsKnowsMenFeelsSelfMotivationalUnderstandingCompassionKnownEnemyKnowingAngryViewpoints Author:Rajneesh
“A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced her question by describing how heart-stricken she'd felt when, earlier that day, she'd seen a man in the street beating a mangy stray dog with a stick. "Compassion," the Dalai Lama told her, "is when you feel as sorry for the man as you do for the dog."” MenFeelsHeartSufferingFeltCompassionStreetsDogHe ManIndiaAskingSticksSorryDefinitionsDescribingVisitingLamaDalaiStray Dogs Author:Marc Ian Barasch
“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.” WayGivingFeelsShouldHelpingActionCertainResultsCompassionYogaConcernedInfiniteKarmaSelflessKarma YogaSelfless Giving Author:Frederick Lenz