Understanding Compassion Quotes
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By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.
— Nhat Hanh
We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.
— Nancy Pearcey
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
— Nhat Hanh
That tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals ...
— Marquis De Sade
I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
— Kyan Douglas
Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.
— Deepak Chopra
Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.
— Lorii Myers
Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.
— Nhat Hanh
Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others.
— Eraldo Banovac
Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.
— Isobelle Carmody
You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers ...
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.
— Thomas S. Monson
As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.
— Bryant McGill
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
Fear feeds off ignorance, whereas compassion and lucidity flower from understanding.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis
— Christopher Paolini
Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone's life.
— Shannon L. Alder
Anguish is the universal language
— Alice Fulton
The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.
— Brian A. Jackson
For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.
— Anthony Mackie
Your tears for others will float you closer toward God.
— Shannon L. Alder
We bring happiness into the world one day at a time by accepting pain and returning understanding and compassion.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
— Gavin Hood
What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.
— Tim Kreider
When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
— Criss Jami
She looked up at me, her eyes large with compassion, with understanding of the solitude and incivility of grief.
— Donna Tartt
When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.
— Shannon L. Alder
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
There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
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
Let understanding, compassion, and kindness be the foundation of our religion and Earth be our place of worship.
— Charles F. Glassman
He didn't deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given.
— V.S. Carnes
We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.
— Jack Kornfield
If you're treating people poorly then you're not emulating God's love. God always resides with the broken hearted.
— Shannon L. Alder
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
— Sharon Salzberg
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.
— Frank Portman
If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.
— Nhat Hanh
If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.
— Nhat Hanh
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Just because it had happened before didn't mean it wasn't serious. It didn't mean he didn't need them.
— Rainbow Rowell
We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
— Erma Bombeck
I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.
— Hillary Clinton
Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand.
— Rob Liano
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
— Richard Feynman
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
— Paul D. Boyer
Through the mind and judgment,
it is not possible to understand
oneself and others.
True understanding is
a compassionate heart. — Human Angels
it is not possible to understand
oneself and others.
True understanding is
a compassionate heart. — Human Angels
Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?
— Debbie Ford
Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.
— Nhat Hanh
Walk with me for a while, my friend - you in my shoes, I in yours - and then let us talk.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.
— Vironika Tugaleva
All beliefs are equally valid.
— Alaric Hutchinson
Empathy is the door to wisdom.
— Suzy Kassem
Every human being has to have compassion and try to be understanding, and that goes double for people who share your blood,
— Kristen Ashley
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.
— Stephen Gaskin
Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.
— Deepak Chopra
The only way to enhance one's power in the world is by increasing one's integrity, understanding, and capacity for compassion.
— David R. Hawkins
Love is the beginning of understanding.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Nothing is wrong with her that is dangerous or harmful. She just feels deeper than others
— Abbi Glines
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.
— R. Scott Bakker
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
— Criss Jami
I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.
— Hazel Hawke
I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion.
— Emmanuelle Bercot
When Jesus was moved by compassion, it was not just a feeling he had, but an understanding and conviction of what those people meant to the Father.
— Shawn Bolz
Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.
— Goldie Hawn
Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.
— Shannon L. Alder
Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
— Aleister Crowley
True love is born from understanding.
— Gautama Buddha
Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding.
— Bryant McGill
Let us think about our attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to respond to what is happening around us
— Kishore Bansal
Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people's shoes to really understand the hardships of their souls.
— Kellie Elmore
I feel sad for the righteous man who cannot find understanding or compassion for a magnificent sinner like me.
— David Zailer
Righteousness doesn't mean being right. It means showing love, compassion and understanding no matter what you think is right.
— L.J. Vanier
Everyone is doing the best they can with what they know, and we are all here to learn and grow.
— Alaric Hutchinson
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
— Socrates
In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.
— Amit Ray
Understanding Subtle & Not-So-Subtle Motivations, Helps Grow Consideration, Empathy & Compassion, Which Leads to Forgiveness
— Miriam Sachael
Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong.
— Shannon L. Alder
War never can bring peace; only understanding, love, kindness and compassion can do that.
— Debasish Mridha