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đ Compassion
âWalk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet practicing compassion with every stepâ
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âLet yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love through compassionâ
â Rumi
âThe greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved through acts of compassionâ
â Victor Hugo
âIf the only prayer you ever say is thank you that will be enough to open the door of compassionâ
â Meister Eckhart
âNo act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.â
â Aesop
âTo be compassionate is to recognize that we are all interconnected in the web of existenceâ
âPut your heart mind and soul into even your smallest acts of compassion for this is the secret of successâ
â Swami Sivananda
âWherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.â
â Seneca
âLighthouses do not go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining with compassionâ
â Anne Lamott
âLet yourself be open and life will be easier with compassion as your constant companionâ
â Jack Kornfield
âTo love someone means to see them as God intended them through the eyes of compassionâ
â Fyodor Dostoevsky
âCompassion directed toward oneself is true humility and the beginning of all wisdomâ
â Simone Weil
âCourage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen with compassion for our imperfectionsâ
â Brene Brown
âThe essence of being human is in extending compassion to those who suffer mostâ
â Aristotle
âWhenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer them with compassion not with forceâ
â Mahatma Gandhi
âThe most important thing in this world is to learn to give out love, and let it come in.â
â Morrie Schwartz
âThe door to the heart opens inward and compassion is the gentle hand that opens itâ
â Ajahn Brahm
âCompassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside someone elses skinâ
â Frederick Buechner
âIf you let go a little you will have a little peace and a little compassion growsâ
â Ajahn Chah
âConnection is why we are here and compassion is the bridge that makes connection possibleâ
âThe world is changed by your example not by your opinion so let your example be one of compassionâ
â Paulo Coelho
âMan may dismiss compassion, and those who feel it are sometimes combated as weaklings. But the process is a natural one. And the feeling that results is often the most profound thing in life.â
â Charles Darwin
âRemember that imperfection is part of the shared human experience and deserves compassion not criticismâ
â Kristen Neff
âThe one thing that is common to all the great world traditions is the golden rule of compassionâ
â Karen Armstrong
âThe best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.â
âWe may have different religions different languages but we all share the capacity for compassionâ
â Kofi Annan
âCompassion is the wish that all beings may be free from suffering born from understanding our common humanityâ
â Sharon Salzberg
âAttention is the beginning of devotion and devotion is the beginning of compassionâ
â Mary Oliver
âCompassion fatigue is not a sign of weakness but a call to deepen our practice and find renewalâ
â Matthieu Ricard
âThe heart desires compassion as the thirsty desert desires the rain to bring it to lifeâ
â Hafiz
âWhat wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?â
â Jean-Jacques Rousseau
âYour living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what compassion you bring to lifeâ
â Khalil Gibran
âThe practice of tonglen allows us to breathe in suffering and breathe out compassion for all beingsâ
â Pema Chodron
âWhen two people relate to each other with compassion a living force exists between themâ
â Martin Buber
âOne does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious with compassionâ
â Carl Jung
âEven the darkest night will end and the sun will rise bringing compassion with its lightâ
âDo not be satisfied with the stories that come before you and unfold your own tale with compassionâ
âI would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.â
â Thomas Aquinas
âKeeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos and an act of self-compassionâ
âIf your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete and cannot truly extend to othersâ
âReal compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reasonâ
â Chogyam Trungpa
âThe practice of compassion is bold it is the practice of choosing love even when it is not easyâ
âEverything belongs when seen through the eyes of compassion nothing needs to be excludedâ
â Richard Rohr
âThey alone live who live for others through compassion and selfless serviceâ
â Swami Vivekananda
âEven in our sleep pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until compassion comesâ
â Aeschylus
âCompassion and tolerance are not signs of weakness but signs of incredible strengthâ
â Aung San Suu Kyi
âWhat value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?â
â Antoine de Saint-ExupÊry
âWhen we practice generating compassion we can expect to experience our fear of painâ
âBefore you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow and extend compassionâ
â Naomi Shihab Nye
âFirst practice compassion toward yourself then you will know how to practice it with othersâ
â Epictetus
âExample is not the main thing in influencing others it is the only thing especially in compassionâ
â Albert Schweitzer
âWhen you plant lettuce and it does not grow well you do not blame the lettuce you look for reasons with compassionâ
âCompassion is a verb it requires action not just feelingâ
âSometimes your joy is the source of your smile and sometimes your compassion is the source of your joyâ
âCompassion is not feeling sorry for others it is understanding their suffering and wanting to helpâ
â Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
âThe expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss and not be touched by it is unrealistic and asks of compassion the impossibleâ
â Rachel Naomi Remen
âWe must restore hope to young people help the old give compassion to the future and welcome the strangerâ
â Pope Francis
âIn a gentle way you can shake the world through persistent acts of compassionâ
âI have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice through compassionâ
â Abraham Lincoln
âWhen you reach the top of the mountain keep climbing with compassion as your guideâ
â Zen Proverb
âIf you want others to be happy practice compassion and if you want to be happy practice compassionâ
â Dalai Lama
âCompassion is the daily practice of recognizing and accepting our shared humanityâ
âI slept and dreamt that life was joy then I awoke and saw that life was service through compassionâ
â Rabindranath Tagore
âEvery morning when we wake up we have twenty four brand new hours to live with compassionâ
âTeach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.â
â Gautama Buddha
âThe friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair is the one who shows true compassionâ
â Henri Nouwen
âPaying attention in a particular way on purpose in the present moment and without judgment is the root of compassionâ
â Jon Kabat-Zinn
âHow you do anything is how you do everything so practice compassion in the smallest momentsâ
â Cheri Huber
âSimplicity patience and compassion are the three greatest treasures a person can possessâ
â Laozi
âWe cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable selves to be seen with compassionâ
âThe sun never says to the earth you owe me and look what happens with a love like that it lights the whole sky with compassionâ
âAn animal looks at you with the eyes of compassion reminding you that all creatures deserve kindnessâ
âCompassion is the quivering of the heart in response to the suffering of anotherâ
â Joan Halifax
âReal compassion is being fully present to what the moment calls for without resistanceâ
âThe world is changed by your example not by your opinion and compassion is the greatest exampleâ
âWhatever you do be compassionate for compassion transforms everything it touchesâ
â Sogyal Rinpoche
âWaking up this morning I smile knowing that compassion will guide my twenty four brand new hoursâ
âI really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least through compassionâ
â Dorothy Day
âWherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness and compassionâ
âFear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth and compassion gives us courage to proceedâ
âThe great illusion of leadership is to think that others can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there without compassionâ
âDespite everything life is full of beauty and meaning if only we have compassion enough to see itâ
â Etty Hillesum
âWe are all just walking each other home and compassion lights the wayâ
â Ram Dass
âThe heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe and all its suffering with compassionâ
â Joanna Macy
âCompassion is the radicalism of our time and the bravest act we can performâ
âThe heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.â
âIf we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.â
â Unknown
âWe have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is compassion and communityâ
âYou cannot have an up without a down and you cannot have love without practicing compassionâ
â Alan Watts
âDarkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that and compassion is that lightâ
â Martin Luther King Jr.
âCompassion and love are both experiences of the same force that connects all beings in the universeâ
âThe highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment and with pure compassionâ
â Jiddu Krishnamurti
âTo bow to the fact of our life and its necessity allows compassion to arise naturallyâ
âI prayed for freedom for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my feet and my compassionâ
â Frederick Douglass
âAll the joy the world contains comes through wishing happiness for others with compassionâ
â Shantideva
âOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls and the most compassionate heartsâ
âPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants our compassionâ
â Rainer Maria Rilke
âThe heart surrenders everything to the moment and the moment surrenders everything to compassionâ
âEducating the mind without educating the heart in compassion is no education at allâ
âSpread love everywhere you go and let no one ever come to you without leaving happier through compassionâ
â Mother Teresa
âTenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolutionâ
â Kahlil Gibran
âWhen a man has compassion for others, God has compassion for him.â
â Talmud
âForgiveness and compassion are not just ethereal spiritual things they are the essence of what makes us humanâ
â Desmond Tutu
âThe purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help othersâ
âYou must not lose faith in humanity for humanity is an ocean and compassion is its deepest currentâ
âLove is a choice you make from moment to moment and compassion is loves highest expressionâ
â Barbara De Angelis
âI wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being found through compassionâ
âThe soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.â
â Parley P. Pratt
âWhen I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news my mother would say look for the helpers showing compassionâ
â Fred Rogers
âThe sole meaning of life is to serve humanity through the practice of compassionâ
â Leo Tolstoy
âThe supreme good is like water which nourishes all things without trying and compassion flows the same wayâ
â Lao Tzu
âCompassion is the basis of morality.â
â Arthur Schopenhauer
âBe kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle that you cannot seeâ
â Plato
âAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well through compassionâ
â Julian of Norwich
âOur task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassionâ
â Albert Einstein
âKindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.â
âCompassion allows us to bear witness to suffering whether it is in ourselves or others without fearâ
âMercy to him that shows it, is the rule.â
â William Cowper
âCompassion will cure more sins than condemnation.â
â Henry Ward Beecher
âCompassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.â
â Pema ChÃļdrÃļn
âMay I be a guard for those who need protection a guide for those who journey with compassion leading the wayâ
âCompassion is not a matter of sympathy but of seeing clearly and working with what isâ
âIt is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters and compassion shapes our responseâ
âCompassion is the wish for all beings to be free from suffering and its causesâ
âEvery person must choose how much truth they can stand and approach others with compassion for their limitsâ
â Irvin Yalom
âFrom caring comes courage and from compassion comes strength to face any challengeâ
âTrue belonging does not require you to change who you are it requires you to be who you are with compassionâ
âCompassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is a covenant between equalsâ
âWhen the heart weeps for what it has lost the spirit laughs for what it has found through compassionâ
â John O Donohue
âBeing deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage through compassionâ
âOur human compassion binds us to one another not in pity but as human beingsâ
â Nelson Mandela
âCompassion is not about trying to fix anyone it is about holding space for their experienceâ
â Gelong Thubten
âOur task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.â
âOne who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.â
â Sophocles
âIt takes courage to develop compassion in a world that often rewards indifferenceâ
âCompassion is born when we discover in the center of our own experience something akin to what others experienceâ
â Parker Palmer
âCompassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves and kindness begins with awarenessâ
âThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you are and extending compassion to all you meetâ
â Joseph Campbell
âCompassion is the divine love that responds to the cry of every suffering soul in the universeâ
â Sri Aurobindo
âAlthough the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it through compassionâ
â Helen Keller
âIn the beginners mind there are many possibilities and in compassion there are infinite onesâ
â Shunryu Suzuki
âCompassion begins at home and when it is practiced at home it knows no limits in the worldâ
âHere is what we seek a compassion that can stand in awe at what the poor have to carryâ
â Gregory Boyle
âHe who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster but maintains compassionâ
â Friedrich Nietzsche
âIf we could read the secret history of our enemies we would find sorrow enough to disarm all hostility through compassionâ
âHe who sees the suffering of others and is moved to compassion, obeys the law written in the heart.â
â Mencius
âNot everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced with compassionâ
â James Baldwin
âI do not ask the wounded person how they feel I myself become the wounded person through compassionâ
â Walt Whitman
âMy religion is very simple my religion is compassion and kindness toward all beingsâ
âLove and compassion are necessities not luxuries for without them humanity cannot surviveâ
âBefore enlightenment chop wood carry water and after enlightenment chop wood carry water with compassionâ
âMy humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human together through compassionâ
âLife is most meaningful when it is lived in service to others through compassion and loveâ
âThe energy of mindfulness carries within it the energy of compassion and together they healâ
âOne of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.â
â Ann Landers
âIf we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each otherâ
âThe purpose of life is not to be happy but to be useful honorable and compassionateâ
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âLet my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom through compassionâ
âTo be human is to be fragile and to embrace our fragility with compassion and tendernessâ
â Jean Vanier
âCompassion is not a luxury it is a necessity for our own peace of mind and for global survivalâ
â Roshi Joan Halifax
âThe boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom and compassion dissolves those boundariesâ
â Tara Brach
âOne who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior.â
â Confucius
âCompassion is the capacity to include all beings in our field of care and concernâ
âWe are each made for goodness love and compassion and our lives are transformed when we act from these truthsâ
âThe quality of mercy is not strained it falls as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneathâ
â William Shakespeare
âThe whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that inspires it.â
â The Talmud
âWe do not need more knowledge we need more compassion to heal this wounded worldâ
â Tenzin Palmo
âWe cannot all do great things but we can do small things with great compassion every dayâ
âWe are all broken by something and compassion is the recognition that we are more alike than we are differentâ
â Bryan Stevenson
âThe principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious ethical and spiritual traditionsâ
âThe greatest danger to our future is apathy and the greatest remedy is compassionâ
â Jane Goodall
âCompassion is the thread that connects us when everything else has been torn apartâ
âThe most fundamental aggression to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage of compassionâ
â Ani Pema Chodron
âMercy and compassion are not weakness but the highest form of strength.â
âWherever you go carry compassion with you for it is the lightest burden and the greatest giftâ
âTrue compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar it sees that the system which produces beggars needs restructuringâ
âCompassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity in moments of struggleâ
âThe practice of compassion increases our capacity for engagement and our ability to be presentâ
âIf you feel pain you are alive and if you feel the pain of others you are a human being practicing compassionâ
âOur greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude and compassion is always a choiceâ
â Viktor Frankl
âHelping fixing and serving represent three different ways of seeing life and only serving comes from compassionâ
âWhat you do not wish for yourself do not do to others for this is the root of compassionâ
âThe day will come when after harnessing the winds we shall harness compassion and loveâ
â Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
âSelf-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to othersâ
âWe are more alike my friends than we are unalike and compassion teaches us this truthâ
â Maya Angelou
âEach of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done and compassion teaches us this truthâ
âIt may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work of compassionâ
â Wendell Berry
âWe are not called to do extraordinary things but to do ordinary things with extraordinary compassionâ
âThe mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.â
â Everett Dirksen
âTo find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature and respond to all beings with compassionâ
â Bodhidharma
âCompassion is an unstable emotion it needs to be translated into action or it withersâ
â Susan Sontag
âTransformed people transform people through the power of authentic compassionâ
âAccept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together with compassionâ
â Marcus Aurelius
âAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity and the gateway to compassionâ
âLet your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone through compassionâ
â George Washington
âIn the end only three things matter how much you loved how gently you lived and how gracefully you let go with compassionâ
âIf you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.â
â Dalai Lama XIV
âA good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination especially when guided by compassionâ
âCompassion asks us to go where it hurts to enter into places of pain and share in brokennessâ
âThe earth is what we all have in common and compassion for it connects us allâ
âCompassion and love are not mere luxuries as the source of both inner and outer peace they are fundamentalâ
â Lama Surya Das
âCan I see another in distress and not be in sorrow too through compassion I feel as they doâ
â William Blake
âOnly to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can our compassion truly deepenâ
âUntil he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.â
âTo pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.â
â Horace Mann
âCompassion practice is daring and it involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares usâ
âKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see extending compassion to allâ
â Mark Twain
âThe practice of compassion requires discipline and concentration it is an art that demands masteryâ
â Erich Fromm
âThe door to happiness opens outward and compassion is the hand that pushes it openâ
â Soren Kierkegaard
âIn the understanding of compassion there is an intelligence that is far beyond mere thoughtâ
âThe idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world and the absence of compassionâ
â Paul Farmer
âCompassion by its very nature cannot be touched off by the suffering of a whole class or a people but only by individualsâ
â Hannah Arendt
âOurs is not the task of fixing the entire world but of stretching out to mend the part within our reach with compassionâ
â Clarissa Pinkola Estes
âIn the gap between thoughts compassion dwells waiting to be awakened by our attentionâ
â Milarepa
âThe purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.â
âUnderstanding someone deeply is already an act of compassion toward that personâ
âThrough compassion you find that all human beings are just like you and that suffering is universalâ
âRaise your words not your voice for it is rain that grows flowers not thunder and compassion is that gentle rainâ
âThere is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of compassion callingâ
â Howard Thurman
âThe antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest it is wholeheartedness born of compassionâ
â David Whyte
âCompassion asks us to look into our own hearts discover what gives us pain and refuse to inflict it on othersâ
âA human being is a part of the whole called universe and compassion connects us to that wholeâ
âLove makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place through the doorway of compassionâ
â Zora Neale Hurston
âThe best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others through compassionâ
âCompassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things in the web of lifeâ
â Thomas Merton
âEvery single being even those who are hostile to us is just as afraid of suffering as we are and seeks happiness through compassionâ
âThe simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.â
âHe who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.â
âNo one has ever become poor by giving.â
â Anne Frank
âHave enough courage to trust compassion one more time and always one more timeâ
âHave compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.â
âThe more you are motivated by compassion the more fearless and confident you will becomeâ
âOnly from the heart can you touch the sky with compassion as your wingsâ
âA little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just through the warmth of compassionâ
âBefore I can tell my life what I want to do with it I must listen to my life telling me who I am through compassionâ
âMay all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the root of happiness through boundless compassionâ
âHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world through compassionâ
âCompassion is the key to the gate of forgiveness and forgiveness opens the door to loveâ
â Marianne Williamson
âIf we stop long enough we can hear the still small voice of compassion calling us homeâ
â Wayne Muller
âThe opposite of love is not hate it is indifference and compassion is the antidote to indifferenceâ
â Elie Wiesel
âStanding at the edge of suffering with the willingness to be present is the essence of compassionâ
âThe moment we choose compassion over judgment everything shifts in our heartsâ
âLove is the most universal the most tremendous and the most mysterious of cosmic forces and compassion is its faceâ
âThe curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change through self-compassionâ
â Carl Rogers
âWhen you judge another you do not define them you define yourself as someone who lacks compassionâ
â Wayne Dyer
âIt is not enough to sympathize with those who are suffering we must have compassion and take actionâ
â Eleanor Roosevelt
âThe simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayerâ
âUntil we extend our circle of compassion to all living things we will not ourselves find peaceâ
âHow far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong.â
â George Washington Carver
âWe are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing and compassion holds us steadyâ
âMindfulness and compassion are two wings of the same bird and we need both to flyâ
âKeeping your heart open in hell is the most radical act of compassion possibleâ
â Stephen Levine
âA human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest â a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.â
âReal love always brings about growth in compassion and understanding for both the giver and receiverâ
âTeach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see; that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.â
â Alexander Pope
âWhen you begin to touch your heart you discover it is bottomless and your compassion is infiniteâ
âThe heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe through boundless compassionâ
âWhether one believes in a religion or not there is not anyone who does not appreciate kindness and compassionâ
âGrowth in compassion happens through those we welcome into our lives especially the vulnerableâ
âDeveloping compassion does not require becoming religious but it does require developing concern for othersâ
âThe soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful itself. To see with compassion is to be transformed.â
â Plotinus
âCompassion is the highest form of love and the deepest form of understanding combinedâ
â Osho
âToo often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.â
â Leo Buscaglia
âHe that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.â
â Thomas Secker
âDo unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you with compassionâ
âUltimately we have just one moral duty to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves through compassionâ
âTo feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.â
â Adam Smith
âWith self-compassion we give ourselves the same kindness we would give a good friend in needâ
âTrue compassion goes beyond empathy and desire to help it knows that all suffering is sharedâ
â Eckhart Tolle
âNo one is born hating another person because of the color of their skin we learn hatred but can also learn compassionâ
âThe soul that has no established aim loses itself; for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.â
â Michel de Montaigne
âSmall acts when multiplied by millions of people can transform the world through compassionâ
â Howard Zinn
âCompassion literally means to feel with to suffer with and in that shared feeling we find strengthâ
âWhen we practice deep looking we see that the other persons suffering is also our own sufferingâ
âYou must love in such a way that the person you love feels free through your compassionâ
âHave compassion for all beings rich and poor alike for each has their own sufferingâ
â Buddha
âThe roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness and in the practice of compassionâ
âCompassion does not see the faults of others it sees only suffering that needs to be addressedâ
â Amma
âCompassion is not about being soft it is about being strong enough to be present with painâ
âThe opposite of courage is not cowardice it is conformity and the absence of compassionâ
â Rollo May
âBe kind whenever possible and it is always possible to practice compassion in every momentâ
âWhat do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other through compassionâ
â George Eliot
âThe most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely with self-compassion and understandingâ
âWhen we get too caught up in the busyness of the world we lose connection with the compassion that lives in our heartsâ
âThe dew of compassion is a tear.â
â Lord Byron
âDo your little bit of good where you are for it is those little bits that overwhelm the world with compassionâ
âWhat wisdom can you find that is greater than compassion for all living beingsâ
âThe whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all living beingsâ
âHe who feels no compassion will receive none.â
â Sa'di Shirazi
âThe wretched have no compassion; they can do good only from strong principles of duty.â
â Samuel Johnson
âThe wound is the place where the light enters you and compassion flows from that openingâ
âThe best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.â
â William Wordsworth
âThe heart has its reasons which reason does not know and compassion speaks from the heartâ
â Blaise Pascal
âWhatever you do for others do it with true compassion and you will never make a mistakeâ
âLet everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going with compassion no feeling is finalâ
âCompassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere and as a result you feel peaceful and contentâ
âRadical compassion begins with accepting our own imperfection and the imperfection of life itselfâ
âAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair in compassionâ
âBetween stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our power to choose compassionâ
âI think we all have empathy but we may not all have enough courage to display it through compassionâ
â Mary Angelou
âEvery person is guilty of all the good they did not do through lack of compassionâ
â Voltaire
âLet us touch the dying the poor the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received with compassionâ
âWhen we feel love and compassion towards others it not only makes others feel loved but it helps us develop inner happinessâ
âThe person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences of compassion.â
âOne must learn to forgive God for being God and compassion teaches us how to beginâ
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