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It is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering
— Radhe Maa
Where there is darkness, let me be the light. Where there is suffering, let me be kind and compassionate.
— Debasish Mridha
The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
So long as space remains
So long as sentient beings'
Suffering remains
I will remain
In order to help,
In order to serve. — Dalai Lama
So long as sentient beings'
Suffering remains
I will remain
In order to help,
In order to serve. — Dalai Lama
The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being
— Dalai Lama
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
— Ram Dass
Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.
— Dalai Lama
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Suffering is always an invitation
to awareness
and compassion
and action. — Ivan M. Granger
to awareness
and compassion
and action. — Ivan M. Granger
Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.
— Liv Ullmann
I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.
— Zoe Weil
Beyond the veil of suffering is a light that shines bright in every one of us. One does not need glasses to see that light, just compassion.
— Charles F. Glassman
When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.
— Victor Hugo
Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.
— Shannon L. Alder
Suffering is not a problem that needs a solution as much as it's an experience that needs compassion. Because
— Ann Voskamp
Compassion goes out looking for suffering, scouring the earth for poverty and misery and pain, the same way the cops look for criminals.
— Donald O'Donovan
Is suffering really necessary?
Yes and no.
If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion. — Eckhart Tolle
Yes and no.
If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion. — Eckhart Tolle
Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.
— Deepak Chopra
Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.
— Nicholas Sparks
We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)
— Billy Graham
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
— Gautama Buddha
The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.
— May Sarton
Without suffering, we do not have the opportunity to cultivate compassion and understanding; and without understanding, there can be no true love. So
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Your suffering is here to help you unfold and to awaken into compassion, love and strength.
— Bryant McGill
We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.
— Radhanath Swami
Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.
— Joan D. Chittister
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.
— Pio Of Pietrelcina
Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.
— Shinzen Young
Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
May I hold myself in compassion.
May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion. — Gautama Buddha
May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion. — Gautama Buddha
Compassion may not fix a problem. It may not undo a wrong, but it may bring a little light into the life of someone who is suffering.
— Karlyle Tomms
The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.
— Megan McKenna
Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.
— Aleksander Kwasniewski
For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.
— Deepak Chopra
One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.
— Frederick Lenz
The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.
— Dalai Lama
Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.
— Stefan Zweig
It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated ...
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.
— Dalai Lama
Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.
— Will Tuttle
Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.
— Gautama Buddha
She breathed in the vast world of suffering and pure, dark love, and as she did, a well of compassion began to flow in her.
— Rebecca Wells
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
— Anna Funder
Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
Even suffering when wrapped in love, seems tolerable.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
On the one hand maybe I've remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.
— Audrey Hepburn
Compassion means entering the suffering of another in order to lead the way out.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.
— Dalai Lama
To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us.
— Allan Lokos
The essence of the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) is about identifying the cause of our suffering & alleviating it.
— Allan Lokos
Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
— Pema Chodron