Suffering And Compassion Quotes
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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
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 invitationto 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
