The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us.
Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.
We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.
'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.
Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.
From George Martin's classically inspired production of the Beatles to Peter Gabriel's early solo masterpieces, to Stereolab's beautiful loops and blips, U.K.-based bands have often found a way to squeeze warmth and compassion from the stone-cold - especially now that the tubes are gone - machinery of the recording studio.
We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion.
Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.
Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.
Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.
I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
Wealth and compassion are opposites.
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
