Compassion And Nonviolence Quotes

#1. The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

Virchand Gandhi

#2. Animal rights, at its heart, is the most unextreme philosophy I can imagine. It is about nonviolence. It is about compassion. It is about not harming and not causing suffering and not killing when we don't have to

Stephanie Ernst

#3. The past never truly dies. It is there, waiting, just below the surface of the now.

John Connolly

#4. The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation.

Amit Ray

#5. You have to learn how to stay in a good mood as you overthrow the sour, puckered hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as reality.

Rob Brezsny

#6. Compassion stands on the pillars of trust, love, awareness and detachment.

Amit Ray

#7. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Ricky Gervais

#9. Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of hopelessness.

Amit Ray

#10. What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.

R.D. Laing

#11. Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. In this respect you, unworthy companion of my sad life, resemble the public, to whom one must never present the delicate scents that only exasperate them, but instead give them only dung, chosen with care.

Charles Baudelaire

#13. I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

Hill Harper

#14. That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.

Lucy Larcom

#15. Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.

Amit Ray

#16. I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'

Robert Crandall

#17. The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn

Bayard Rustin

#18. The true expression of nonviolence is compassion, which is not just a passive emotional response, but a rational stimulus to action.

Mark Kurlansky

#19. Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions.

Dana Gould

#20. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

Mark Pryor

#21. I'm not sure I'm cut out for this wise-advice business. Maybe I should wear a fake white beard to convince myself I am a sage.

Cassandra Clare

#22. Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going to add $24 billion to the debt in unwanted and unnecessary pork-barrel projects.

John McCain

#23. Meditation is not thinking about the image of a person of the past. It is more about focusing and channelizing the power of your emotions and imagination for fulfilling a bigger dream - the dream that will bring more life, energy peace, happiness and meaning to you and the society.

Amit Ray

#24. Love is an energy that is addictive, contagious and free. Earn it, chase it, give it to those in need.

Aaron Lauritsen

#25. Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.

Amit Ray