Dalai Lama Quotes

I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

True contentment comes with empathy.

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

I always think you have to show a degree of humanity and sensitivity when you're dealing with people in extreme circumstances.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and love. Understanding is the source of love. Understanding is love itself. Understanding is another name for love; love is another name for understanding.

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

My father loved people, children and pets.

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.