Quotes About Being Compassionate

#1. Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents.

Phil Jackson

#2. When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement ... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#3. People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

Michele Bachmann

#4. To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

Geraldo Rivera

#5. Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

Peter Kreeft

#6. The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. As radical as it may seem, it is possible to do things only out of play. I believe that to the degree that we engage moment by moment in the playfulness of enriching life- motivated solely by the desire for its enrichment- to that degree are we being compassionate with ourselves.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#8. Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.

Liza M. Wiemer

#9. The idea I'll explore is that the act of feeling what you think others are feeling - whatever one chooses to call this - is different from being compassionate, from being kind, and most of all, from being good. From a moral standpoint, we're better off without it.

Paul Bloom

#10. Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Karen Armstrong

#11. I believe in being compassionate,

Jose Ramos-Horta

#12. You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings that makes you happy, that gives you a spiritual fulfillment - a kind of fulfillment that goes way beyond anything you can buy.

George Lucas

#13. Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Myriam Miedzian

#14. There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.

Angelina Jolie

#15. Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass. Being curious and compassionate can take you out of your ego and edge your soul towards wonder.

Mary Karr

#16. It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Murray N. Rothbard

#17. Action with and for those who suffer is the concrete expression of the compassionate life and the final criterion of being a Christian.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#18. How far you go in life depends on
your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in your life
you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

#19. Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyone's interest, but is everyone's responsibility to achieve.

Dalai Lama

#20. I think we have to stand up against what is unacceptable, and to push the boundaries and reclaim a more humane way of being in the world, so that we can extend our compassionate intelligence and begin to work with a strengthened will and imagination that can take us into the future.

Terry Tempest Williams

#21. A simple smile. That's the start of
opening your heart and being
compassionate to others.

Dalai Lama

#22. When any welfare scheme is being proposed, its political sponsors always dwell on what a generous and compassionate government should pay to Paul; they neglect to mention that this additional money must be seized from Peter.

Henry Hazlitt

#23. A compassionate concern for others' well-being is the source of happiness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#24. The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

Cat Stevens

#25. Regarding yourself as a highly rational and compassionate being does not make you rational and compassionate in all circumstances.

Ian McEwan

#26. As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life for myself and not basing my decisions on those around me, and really living a life where I receive my happiness from my own experiences rather than from people pleasing.

Shailene Woodley

#27. Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

Michelle Tea

#28. My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically, but I had to be compassionate and understand the position of those abusing me. I had to figure it out and then rise above it.

Saul Rubinek

#29. Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.

Edmund Bourne

#30. My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

Carolyn Mackler

#31. We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#32. Remember that if you do not put your own well-being first you cannot love yourself and thus, you cannot truly love and be compassionate towards others.

Christopher Dines

#33. There are moments when my kid can be the most compassionate person I've ever met. He's always
worried about hurting the feelings of those he loves. I hope he never loses that.
"I accidently farted in class today."
"Aaaand we're back to being twelve,

Kristen Proby

#34. There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience.

Andre Dubus III

#35. I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the 'compassionate mother' or whatever.

Michael Learned

#36. I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.

Ziggy Marley

#37. Maybe the same essential download was also being delivered to other people - a massive, compassionate battalion of us - at the same time.

Jonathan Talat Phillips

#38. Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [ ... ] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.

Homer Hickam

#39. Me being a compassionate person, I would never hold any grudges against my ex.

Amber Rose

#40. Mindsight is a teachable skill at the heart of being empathic and insightful, moral and compassionate.

Daniel J. Siegel

#41. ...rewilding is all about being nice, kind, compassionate, empathic, and harnessing our inborn goodness and optimism. We must all work together at this. It's about time we focus on the good side of human and animal nature. ... nature offers many lessons for kinder society. Blood shouldn't sell.

Marc Bekoff

#42. More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

Dalai Lama

#43. Sometimes, we find ourselves as conservatives being angry when we should be joyful, finding ourselves being negative when we should be positive, because we have a positive message to send ... We ought to be the most compassionate people in the world.

Kevin Cramer

#44. Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?

Matthieu Ricard

#45. It's a compassionate reaction that all testicles have for fellow testicles being whacked, kicked or ripped to shreds by footballs, martial arts students or dead palm frond stubs, respectively.

Bill Kasal

#46. As Eckhart, one of Otto's many sources, had asserted centuries earlier, referring to the Other as "God," the religious seeker must set aside "any idea about God as being good, wise, [or] compassionate.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#47. When you are blessing the sick, you beg of the Almighty, but actually you are not begging for anything, because from inside your being, energy is pouring into the other person. It is from a state of compassion, of compassionate meditation, that the healing activity of God, within the being, flows.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#48. Compassionate the mountains rise
Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
That, having looked on life time out of mind,
Know that the simple gift of being kind
Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.

DuBose Heyward

#49. I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.

Jane Hamilton

#50. Pause and remember - Every person is going through difficult hardships and growth. Let's be more conscious of this by being more patient, compassionate and understanding.

Jennifer Young

#51. If one calls upon Him repeatedly, He becomes compassionate; and so a devoted attachment comes into being. This love for love's sake should be hidden from all eyes.

Sarada Devi

#52. It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.
It's not about being rich or poor, it's about being alive and happy.
It's not about being right, it's about being considerate and compassionate.

Karen L. Syed

#53. the attempt to become a compassionate human being is a lifelong project.

Karen Armstrong

#54. The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

Noah Levine

#55. I would have appreciated the option of joining you and Reece instead of being left with the three bickering hens. I thought you were more compassionate, Levi. -Harrison Oxley

S.L. Morgan

#56. Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.

Gautama Buddha

#57. As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we are different. That may be the most essential message of all, as we help our children grow toward being caring, compassionate, and charitable adults.

Fred Rogers

#58. The doorway to health, higher intelligence and inexhaustible creativity lies in your willingness to live from Source. Risk being who you are meant to be; you are more compassionate, colorful, imaginative, visionary, more sensitive than you think.

Lynne Gordon-Mundel

#59. The most urgent and demanding question for Christian believers is not whether "a supreme being of some kind" exists, but rather whether this incomparably good and powerful and compassionate source and end of all things truly is as revealed in Scripture

Thomas C. Oden

#60. I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

Terry McMillan

#61. We do know that she's compassionate and eccentric - an excellent combination in a human being;

Tom Robbins

#62. We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This outpouring of emotion and effort by our children was so gratifying, and what they achieved absolutely exceeded our wildest expectations.

Jeff B. Davis

#63. Being a mom has made me a better person. It's made me more compassionate. It's just awesome. I think I was put here to be a mom.

Stephanie Mills

#64. Wonderful!Hold Me Tight blends the best in research findings with practical suggestions from a caring and compassionate clinician. This fabulous book will be of great benefitto couples trying to find their way to better communication and deeper, more fulfilling ways of being with each other. Bravo!

Daniel J. Siegel

#65. I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

Joel Osteen

#66. To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#67. Love is being understanding and compassionate.

Haley Pullos

#68. I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

John Mayer