Compassionate Heart Quotes

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others." —Cornflower

My mum, who died in 2011, was the most loving mother you could ask for. She was very compassionate, always a good listener, and her love was a constant throughout my life. She was very sympathetic, kind and understanding and I think these values can be underrated.

He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth they, and they only.

A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

I do an early morning meditation from 4am to 6am, a yoga class from 6am to 7am and then set an intention to feel joyful and energetic in my body and loving and compassionate in my heart. For the rest of the day, I just go with the flow.

You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.

Sen. Akaka's care, empathy and compassion were evident to everyone who knew him.

The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.

If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.

There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the ability to have our hearts broken with the things that break the heart of God. That is part of what it means to be a Christian.

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.

Eliminate laws and dogmas that hinder the progress of the world and develop the heart in the form of compassion.

For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law if he thinks the ends justify the means.

May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Unless and until you have developed a heart inundated with compassion, do not sit on the seat of judgement.

Your friend, your enemy, your neutral all are equal. Genuine compassion is unbiased.

I'm a passionate person; there's a lot going on underneath my carousel of blazers: a cauldron of sensitivity and emotion.