Compassion

“I looked about me — my soul was stung by the sufferings of humanity.”

“We can feed the seeds of peace, the seeds of compassion and we can transform that anger into practical peace-making.”

“We should ask why these people have to suffer.”

“Why can’t we be kind to ourselves right now?”

“when people deeply understand the hearts of others, they naturally act so as not to harm society or other people.”

“I sing to the people who are suffering all over the world.”

“The one who truly loves – cares for the others, their good deeds lay in his heart.”

“Ubuntu is the principle that we act humanely and with respect towards others as a way of demanding the same from them.”

“Ubuntu literally means ‘humanness’ in the Nguni languages of Southern Africa, and is often used to summarise the moral core of how we ought to live and treat one another.”

“While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight.”

“We continue anyway because once you have seen the sufferings and oppression, you simply cannot look away anymore.”

“To practice Buddhism, you must care not only for yourself but for society.”

“My pen is too weak to express all I feel of sympathy with you.”

“Don’t be violent toward your anger, your fear, and your worries.”

“What motivates me, and I think others, is giving a damn, really caring.”

“By definition he cannot put himself today in the service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.”

“I had a feeling that a great wave of good will poured out from these people.”

“That subject, handled in your striking manner, would ease the yoke (perhaps) of many;—but if only of one—Gracious God!—what a feast to a benevolent heart!”