Practicing Compassion Quotes

#1. By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred.

Radhe Maa

#2. We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

Dalai Lama

#4. Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.

Gary Zukav

#5. Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love.

Debasish Mridha

#6. One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

Jack Kerouac

#7. In everyone lives the person called "Monk" (From the Series), the families which are shown by Stephen King and many other people. But when people will understand this?

Deyth Banger

#8. Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

Winston Churchill

#9. Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

Nhat Hanh

#10. By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Sharon Salzberg

#11. From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight. This being that could love a man, bear children, grow old, and die; to think one whole existence was in this weight.

Haruki Murakami

#12. Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience - a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask.

Robert A. Caro

#13. Um, Sparrow ... did I really hear you say dagnabbit?

Willow Aster

#14. It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.

Clarence H. Burns

#15. Today, I choose to cherish myself like a beloved child. I treat myself gently and with compassion. Practicing alert attention, I find delight in the small treasures of the day. I allow meaningful moments to assume enhanced perspective. Counting these blessings, I enrich my impoverished heart.

Julia Cameron

#16. Lift your spirits by practicing random acts of kindness.

Renae A. Sauter