Krista Tippett Quotes

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

We all need to realize that there are people out there who may be suffering and we all need to try to do our part to relieve that suffering when we can.

Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

When we meet a person truly in need, do we see the face of God?

It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.

Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental attitude based on the wish for others to be free of their suffering and is associated with a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect towards others.

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.

Compassion is where peace and justice kiss

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.