#compassion

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

If you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant.

His victory is not a cause for rejoicing. To rejoice in a conquest is to rejoice in the slaughter of men.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.

Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Where are your greatest dangers? In compassion.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy—these are undoubtedly great virtues. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, is within me?

A healthy person does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The presence of friends in misfortune is a complex thing; their sympathy relieves our grief, yet it pains us to see them grieving for our sake.

Pity is often a perception of our own misfortunes in those of other people; it is a clever foresight of the evils into which we may fall.

The ultimate wisdom is to see the human comedy with gentle eyes, knowing that our own heart plays its part upon the stage.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?

He who sees the Supreme Lord dwelling equally in all beings, the imperishable in things that perish, he truly sees.

Let your heart be as wide as the ocean.

The sun shines equally upon all; let your compassion do the same.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Whenever you are in doubt, apply the talisman: recall the face of the poorest person you have seen and ask if your next step will be of any use to them.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.