Ramana Maharshi Quotes

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of us is the sole occupant of the universe.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.

Humans are not really very humane.

We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.