Dayananda Saraswati Quotes

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

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

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

We're a compassionate nation.

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

Why does God endow us with compassion?

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

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.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

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.

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

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

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

Kindness is a sort of love without being love.

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

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

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.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.