#compass

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate. ↗

— Harry Browne

#compassionate #concerned #effective #forcing #generous

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#empathy #giving #love #solutions #beauty

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#capacity #compassion #else #fatal #feeling

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead. ↗

— Elton John

#gay #jesus #sexuality #forgiveness

Really good writing has purpose and that purpose should be to shape other minds to desire truth and a more noble purpose in life and to become more thoughtful and knowledgable about important things like being kind and loving towards all living beings on our planet and not just humans but all animals. ↗

— Susan Waterfield

#existence #meaning #purpose #seeking-truth #writing

Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone's feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love—the greatest of all virtues! So, my darling, I do wrong for you; I lie that you might feel loved. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#lie #love #lying #richelle #richelle-goodrich

True kindness ennobles the giver ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#kindness #love #sincerity #love

Live your life with a perspective of “Us ↗

— Martin Suarez

#compassionate #life #life-lessons #love #one-body

Before I met you, my life ran on sheer amusement. After I met you, my life ran on sheer compassion. ↗

— Heenashree Khandelwal

#fiction #heenashree #heenashree-khandelwal #life #life-and-living-life-and-love

If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#bully #bullying #compassion #empathy #greatness