Dayananda Saraswati Quotes

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.