authentic compassion Quotes

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others.

And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.

In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.

A demonstration of sincere concern can be a strong building block of love.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy-one is happy and, hence, does something. One does not do some things in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way.

Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

When you come from 'love,' you do certain things because you are love, not because you want to have love.

The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.