Dayananda Saraswati Quotes

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

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

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

I just try to do the best I can for myself and the people around me.

My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

We never know who we are going to be until we are tested, but perhaps we can test ourselves without going to the extremes of war. Perhaps we can be kinder now, live with less now, reach out to others now - and build an inner reserve of a strong identity that will hold us up even when everything else falls away.

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.