Practice Compassion Quotes

#1. Living in society, we must share the suffering of our fellow citizens and practice compassion and tolerance not only toward our loved ones but also toward our enemies.

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.

Phyllis McGinley

#3. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama XIV

#4. Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion.

Dalai Lama

#5. It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Brene Brown

#6. We can't practice compassion with other people if we can't treat ourselves kindly.

Brene Brown

#7. For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion. So in order to practice compassion, you should have an enemy.

Dalai Lama XIV

#8. Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

Jack Kornfield

#9. If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.

Gelek Rimpoche

#10. Happy Wednesday! Practice compassion. Lift others. Learn to encourage rather than criticize. You'll feel better when you help others feel better.

Tracey Edmonds

#11. A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer.

Bell Hooks

#12. Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Karen Armstrong

#13. The practice of love and compassion are the most important treatment for the sickness of hatred and revival of peace in the world.

Debasish Mridha

#14. The practice of radical forgiveness, the extension of compassion-this is grace.

Jiulio Consiglio

#15. Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic.

Dalai Lama

#16. Rage - whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders' insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us - is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.

Bonnie Myotai Treace

#17. I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

Sharon Salzberg

#18. We have to be in the present time, because only the present is real, only in the present can we be alive. We do not practice for the sake of the future, to be reborn in a paradise, but to be peace, to be compassion, to be joy right now.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#19. When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

Nhat Hanh

#20. When we practice viewing others as perfect right now, we increase our capacity to view ourselves with more compassion, kindness, and self-love.

Anella Wetter

#21. Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.

Gautama Buddha

#22. We train in the bodhichitta practices in order to become so open that we can take the pain of the world in, let it touch our hearts, and turn it into compassion.

Pema Chodron

#23. Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you're about to react harshly and you'll avoid doing and saying things you'll later regret.

Lori Deschene

#24. Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or new corporations or foundations or non-profits bringing mindfulness to work.

Sharon Salzberg

#25. Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#26. included: no religious doctrine or practice can be authentic if it does not lead to practical compassion.

Karen Armstrong

#27. May I give you some advice for you to put into practice daily? When your heart makes you feel those low cravings, say slowly to the Immaculate Virgin: Look on me with compassion. Don't abandon me. Don't abandon me, my Mother! - And recommend this prayer to others.

Josemaria Escriva

#28. If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion.

Dalai Lama

#29. My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.

Dalai Lama

#30. To practice courage, compassion, and connection is to look at life and the people around us, and say, I'm all in.

Brene Brown

#31. Humanity's collective mission in the cosmos lies in the practice of compassion.

Daisaku Ikeda

#32. Compassion is not a virtue
it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have
it's something we choose to practice.

Brene Brown

#33. The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.

Laozi

#34. It probably takes many years of monastic practice to equal the spiritual growth generated by one sleepless night with a sick child.

Douglas Abrams

#35. A lot of times people do spiritual practice just for themselves. I try to turn that a little bit. I try to make spiritual practice more a part of the community. I write about infusing people with compassion.

Sakyong Mipham

#36. Apology may start as a feeling, a desire to make matters right, but it requires a commitment to move that desire into practice, to actually take on the great courageous task of showing compassion to others.

John Kador

#37. Understand the suffering of worldly existence.
Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness.
Practice the path of meditation and compassion.
Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

Gautama Buddha

#38. The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#39. Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.

Vallabha Acharya

#40. The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same.

Dalai Lama

#41. My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

Dalai Lama

#42. When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

Rumi

#43. It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi

#44. I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.

Aspen Baker

#45. When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

Nhat Hanh

#46. If you truly practice mindfulness, it will never cause harm. If the practice doesn't bring about more compassion, then it's not right mindfulness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#47. The Five A's (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing) are simultaneously the fulfillment of our earliest needs, the requirements of adult intimacy and of universal compassion, and the essential qualities of mindfulness practice.

David Richo

#48. Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

James Altucher

#49. A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. NThat is not quite working. One of the things I try to emphasize is contemplative meditation - bringing your thought and intention into meditation.

Sakyong Mipham

#50. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.

Pema Chodron

#51. For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

Dalai Lama

#52. The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.

Max Anders

#53. Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

Sharon Salzberg

#54. Practice love, compassion and forgiveness. Anger is nothing but an anchor that keeps you from moving forward.

Abby Fabiaschi

#55. Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn't go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.

Sharon Salzberg

#56. If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#57. When you can begin to see the similarities between you and your work colleagues in respect of 'being human' and the collective challenges we all face, it makes life much easier to deal with, especially when met with overbearing behaviour.

Christopher Dines

#58. By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#59. We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.

Brene Brown

#60. Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.

Dalai Lama

#61. Some people consider the practice of love and compassion is only related to religious practice and if they are not interested in religion they neglect these inner values. But love and compassion are qualities that human beings require just to live together.

Dalai Lama

#62. You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The practice should open us up, and crack open our hearts again and again.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#63. We must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will embrace and practice true compassion and honor the ideals of peace and freedom, and we will not give up.

Jessica Lange

#64. It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Dalai Lama

#65. The practice of Sufism is the intention to move toward truth by means of love and devotion.

Javad Nurbakhsh

#66. Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.

Frederick Lenz

#67. Enemies provide us some of the best opportunities to practice patience, tolerance, and compassion.

Dalai Lama XIV

#68. To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

Allan Lokos

#69. Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.

Norm Phelps

#70. As long as we practice with a vow to help others, we are the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, and we become the leading figure in the Heart Sutra, whether we are a layperson or are ordained, whether whether celibate or married, living in the monastery or living in secular society.

Dosung Yoo

#71. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.

Nhat Hanh

#72. I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.

Dalai Lama

#73. As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

Sharon Salzberg

#74. I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

Dalai Lama

#75. The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.

Allan Lokos

#76. You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

Dalai Lama

#77. Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience.

Allan Lokos

#78. First and foremost, if we maintain healthy emotional boundaries and direct love and kindness inwards, we are taking care of ourselves and secondly we are giving a subliminal message to others about how we wish to be treated. People tend to subconsciously treat us how we treat ourselves.

Christopher Dines