385 quotes
“To love someone means to see them as God intended them through the eyes of compassion”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Compassion and tolerance are not signs of weakness but signs of incredible strength”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts to enter into places of pain and share in brokenness”
— Henri Nouwen
“May all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the root of happiness through boundless compassion”
— Ani Pema Chodron
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls and the most compassionate hearts”
— Khalil Gibran
“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude and compassion is always a choice”
— Viktor Frankl
“What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle that you cannot see”
— Plato
“If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain”
— Emily Dickinson
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love through compassion”
— Rumi
“An animal looks at you with the eyes of compassion reminding you that all creatures deserve kindness”
— Martin Buber
“In the understanding of compassion there is an intelligence that is far beyond mere thought”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage through compassion”
— Lao Tzu
“Understanding someone deeply is already an act of compassion toward that person”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going with compassion no feeling is final”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Have enough courage to trust compassion one more time and always one more time”
— Maya Angelou
“For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”
— Matthew the Evangelist
“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Compassion is a verb”
“Forgiveness and compassion are not just ethereal spiritual things they are the essence of what makes us human”
— Desmond Tutu
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place through the doorway of compassion”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest it is wholeheartedness born of compassion”
— David Whyte
“If we stop long enough we can hear the still small voice of compassion calling us home”
— Wayne Muller
“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”
— Gautama Buddha
“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences of compassion.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The door to the heart opens inward and compassion is the gentle hand that opens it”
— Ajahn Brahm
“To bow to the fact of our life and its necessity allows compassion to arise naturally”
— Jack Kornfield
“Compassion does not see the faults of others it sees only suffering that needs to be addressed”
— Amma
“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”
— Unknown
“May I be a guard for those who need protection a guide for those who journey with compassion leading the way”
— Shantideva
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity through the practice of compassion”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Real compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason”
— Chogyam Trungpa
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of their skin we learn hatred but can also learn compassion”
— Nelson Mandela
“To heal we must first acknowledge the wound and give it our full compassionate attention”
“Compassion is not feeling sorry for others it is understanding their suffering and wanting to help”
— Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
“Compassion is the highest form of love and the deepest form of understanding combined”
— Osho
“When two people relate to each other with compassion a living force exists between them”
“We are each made for goodness love and compassion and our lives are transformed when we act from these truths”
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Man 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.”
— Charles Darwin
“To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature and respond to all beings with compassion”
— Bodhidharma
“The practice of compassion increases our capacity for engagement and our ability to be present”
— Joan Halifax
“Raise your words not your voice for it is rain that grows flowers not thunder and compassion is that gentle rain”
“Each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done and compassion teaches us this truth”
— Bryan Stevenson
“Spread love everywhere you go and let no one ever come to you without leaving happier through compassion”
— Mother Teresa
“How 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.”
— George Washington Carver
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“To be human is to be fragile and to embrace our fragility with compassion and tenderness”
— Jean Vanier
“Here is what we seek a compassion that can stand in awe at what the poor have to carry”
— Gregory Boyle
“Compassion is the capacity to include all beings in our field of care and concern”
— Sharon Salzberg
“The heart has its reasons which reason does not know and compassion speaks from the heart”
— Blaise Pascal
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you with compassion”
— Wendell Berry
“Love is the most universal the most tremendous and the most mysterious of cosmic forces and compassion is its face”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived — this is to have succeeded.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere and as a result you feel peaceful and content”
— Dalai Lama
“Simplicity patience compassion. These three are your greatest treasures leading to peace.”
— Laozi
“He who feels no compassion will receive none.”
— Sa'di Shirazi
“Compassion is born when we discover in the center of our own experience something akin to what others experience”
— Parker Palmer
“In the gap between thoughts compassion dwells waiting to be awakened by our attention”
— Milarepa
“The heart desires compassion as the thirsty desert desires the rain to bring it to life”
— Hafiz
“Simplicity patience and compassion are the three greatest treasures a person can possess”
“Everything belongs when seen through the eyes of compassion nothing needs to be excluded”
— Richard Rohr
“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
“If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.”
— Mary Webb
“We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing and compassion holds us steady”
— Tara Brach
“We cannot all do great things but we can do small things with great compassion every day”
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
— Carl Jung
“When you reach the top of the mountain keep climbing with compassion as your guide”
— Zen Proverb
“Helping fixing and serving represent three different ways of seeing life and only serving comes from compassion”
— Rachel Naomi Remen
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is a covenant between equals”
— Brene Brown
“My religion is very simple my religion is compassion and kindness toward all beings”
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer them with compassion not with force”
“Compassion is the thread that connects us when everything else has been torn apart”
— Naomi Shihab Nye
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others it is the only thing especially in compassion”
“The essence of being human is in extending compassion to those who suffer most”
— Aristotle
“All the joy the world contains comes through wishing happiness for others with compassion”
“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment and compassion is loves highest expression”
— Barbara De Angelis
“Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”
“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
— William Wordsworth
“The great illusion of leadership is to think that others can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there without compassion”
“Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside someone elses skin”
— Frederick Buechner
“How you do anything is how you do everything so practice compassion in the smallest moments”
— Cheri Huber
“In a gentle way you can shake the world through persistent acts of compassion”
“We are more alike my friends than we are unalike and compassion teaches us this truth”
“Small acts when multiplied by millions of people can transform the world through compassion”
— Howard Zinn
“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other through compassion”
— George Eliot
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.”
— Robin Sharma
“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace.”
— Pythagoras
“Every person must choose how much truth they can stand and approach others with compassion for their limits”
— Irvin Yalom
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can our compassion truly deepen”
— Pema Chodron
“How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Compassion is the wish that all beings may be free from suffering born from understanding our common humanity”
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“Keeping your heart open in hell is the most radical act of compassion possible”
— Stephen Levine
“When we practice generating compassion we can expect to experience our fear of pain”
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth and compassion gives us courage to proceed”
“Compassion is the quivering of the heart in response to the suffering of another”
“Let us touch the dying the poor the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received with compassion”
“Compassion is the basis of morality and kindness is compassion in action”
“Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom through compassion”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Compassion is the foundation of everything positive everything good that you want to bring into the world”
“We are not called to do extraordinary things but to do ordinary things with extraordinary compassion”
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world but of stretching out to mend the part within our reach with compassion”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“True belonging does not require you to change who you are it requires you to be who you are with compassion”
“My humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human together through compassion”
“He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster but maintains compassion”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love and compassion are necessities not luxuries without them humanity cannot survive and healing cannot happen”
“First practice compassion toward yourself then you will know how to practice it with others”
— Epictetus
“Every person is guilty of all the good they did not do through lack of compassion”
— Voltaire
“Too 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.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things man will not himself find peace.”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair in compassion”
— Kahlil Gibran
“The soul that has no established aim loses itself; for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.”
— Parley P. Pratt
“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it through compassion”
— Helen Keller
“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities and in compassion there are infinite ones”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we would find sorrow enough to disarm all hostility through compassion”
“Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty, and the truest mark of command.”
— Phaedrus
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
— Persian Proverb
“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world and the absence of compassion”
— Paul Farmer
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news my mother would say look for the helpers showing compassion”
— Fred Rogers
“The quality of mercy is not strained it falls as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath”
— William Shakespeare
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow and extend compassion”
“The earth is what we all have in common and compassion for it connects us all”
“The practice of compassion is bold it is the practice of choosing love even when it is not easy”
“Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; let it travel down the years, let it wipe another's tears.”
— Henry Burton
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
“One must learn to forgive God for being God and compassion teaches us how to begin”
— Etty Hillesum
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that and compassion is that light”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are and extending compassion to all you meet”
— Joseph Campbell
“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all living beings”
— Thomas Merton
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what compassion you bring to life”
“Paying attention in a particular way on purpose in the present moment and without judgment is the root of compassion”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Through compassion you find that all human beings are just like you and that suffering is universal”
“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”
— Buddha
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster.”
— Og Mandino
“Only from the heart can you touch the sky with compassion as your wings”
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair is the one who shows true compassion”
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved through acts of compassion”
— Victor Hugo
“Every morning when we wake up we have twenty four brand new hours to live with compassion”
“The day will come when after harnessing the winds we shall harness compassion and love”
“Our 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.”
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another”
— Charles Dickens
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history of compassion and sacrifice.”
“Compassion asks us to look into our own hearts discover what gives us pain and refuse to inflict it on others”
— Karen Armstrong
“Compassion is an unstable emotion that needs to be steadied by practice and kindness is that practice”
“A human being is a part of the whole called universe and compassion connects us to that whole”
— Albert Einstein
“Compassion and love are both experiences of the same force that connects all beings in the universe”
— Ram Dass
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work of compassion”
“Compassion is the daily practice of recognizing and accepting our shared humanity”
“Compassion is not about trying to fix anyone it is about holding space for their experience”
— Gelong Thubten
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it I must listen to my life telling me who I am through compassion”
“Compassion practice is daring and it involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us”
“Developing compassion does not require becoming religious but it does require developing concern for others”
— Matthieu Ricard
“We do not need more knowledge we need more compassion to heal this wounded world”
— Tenzin Palmo
“True compassion goes beyond empathy and desire to help it knows that all suffering is shared”
— Eckhart Tolle
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being found through compassion”
“If you let go a little you will have a little peace and a little compassion grows”
— Ajahn Chah
“The supreme good is like water which nourishes all things without trying and compassion flows the same way”
“Have compassion for all beings rich and poor alike for each has their own suffering”
“Ultimately we have just one moral duty to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves through compassion”
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see extending compassion to all”
— Mark Twain
“Life is most meaningful when it is lived in service to others through compassion and love”
“Compassion is not a luxury it is a necessity for our own peace of mind and for global survival”
— Roshi Joan Halifax
“The most important thing in this world is to learn to give out love, and let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile and sometimes your compassion is the source of your joy”
“The one thing that is common to all the great world traditions is the golden rule of compassion”
“Compassion is the divine love that responds to the cry of every suffering soul in the universe”
— Sri Aurobindo
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants our compassion”
“To be compassionate is to recognize that we are all interconnected in the web of existence”
“Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things in the web of life”
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”
— Adam Smith
“In the end only three things matter how much you loved how gently you lived and how gracefully you let go with compassion”
“Compassion is not about being soft it is about being strong enough to be present with pain”
“The charitable man is the truly wise man, and he who loveth not his brother is indeed a fool.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“We must restore hope to young people help the old give compassion to the future and welcome the stranger”
— Pope Francis
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness and in the practice of compassion”
“The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious ethical and spiritual traditions”
“With self-compassion we give ourselves the same kindness we would give a good friend in need”
— Kristen Neff
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious with compassion”
“Even in our sleep pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until compassion comes”
— Aeschylus
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
— Joseph Joubert
“Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others”
“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well through compassion”
— Julian of Norwich
“He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?”
— Lord Byron
“Attention is the beginning of devotion and devotion is the beginning of compassion”
— Mary Oliver
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy and the greatest remedy is compassion”
— Jane Goodall
“Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.”
— William Cowper
“The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment and with pure compassion”
“Connection is why we are here and compassion is the bridge that makes connection possible”
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
“Can I see another in distress and not be in sorrow too through compassion I feel as they do”
— William Blake
“Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves and kindness begins with awareness”
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination especially when guided by compassion”
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world through compassion”
— Anne Frank
“Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
— Walt Whitman
“It takes courage to develop compassion in a world that often rewards indifference”
“Love and compassion are necessities not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
“The door to happiness opens outward and compassion is the hand that pushes it open”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior.”
— Confucius
“The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.”
— Everett Dirksen
“Transformed people transform people through the power of authentic compassion”
“When you plant lettuce and it does not grow well, you do not blame the lettuce.”
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion and if you want to be happy practice compassion”
“Compassion literally means to feel with to suffer with and in that shared feeling we find strength”
— Joanna Macy
“When a man has compassion for others, God has compassion for him.”
— Talmud
“If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other”
“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you and unfold your own tale with compassion”
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
“What you do not wish for yourself do not do to others for this is the root of compassion”
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
— Seneca
“Mindfulness and compassion are two wings of the same bird and we need both to fly”
“Remember that imperfection is part of the shared human experience and deserves compassion not criticism”
“Our human compassion binds us to one another not in pity but as human beings”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise bringing compassion with its light”
“Put your heart mind and soul into even your smallest acts of compassion for this is the secret of success”
— Swami Sivananda
“Growth in compassion happens through those we welcome into our lives especially the vulnerable”
“The world is changed by your example not by your opinion so let your example be one of compassion”
— Paulo Coelho
“Every family should look upon every other family member with eyes of compassion.”
“The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe through boundless compassion”
“Let yourself be open and life will be easier with compassion as your constant companion”
“The wretched have no compassion; they can do good only from strong principles of duty.”
— Samuel Johnson
“One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.”
— Ann Landers
“Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things we will not ourselves find peace”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy then I awoke and saw that life was service through compassion”
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is an equal partnership”
“The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe and all its suffering with compassion”
“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”
— Sophocles
“A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just through the warmth of compassion”
“We are all just walking each other home and compassion lights the way”
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
— Aesop
“You cannot have an up without a down and you cannot have love without practicing compassion”
— Alan Watts
“Whether one believes in a religion or not there is not anyone who does not appreciate kindness and compassion”
“In separateness lies the worlds great misery. In compassionate family lies the worlds true strength.”
“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least through compassion”
— Dorothy Day
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion if you want to be happy practice compassion and kindness”
“We are all broken by something and compassion is the recognition that we are more alike than we are different”
“Love and compassion are necessities not luxuries for without them humanity cannot survive”
“The sun never says to the earth you owe me and look what happens with a love like that it lights the whole sky with compassion”
“Live simply so that others may simply live”
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen with compassion for our imperfections”
“Despite everything life is full of beauty and meaning if only we have compassion enough to see it”
“Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering whether it is in ourselves or others without fear”
“The question is not can they reason nor can they talk but can they suffer”
— Jeremy Bentham
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than compassion for all living beings”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be useful honorable and compassionate”
“Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.”
— Pema Chödrön
“Lighthouses do not go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining with compassion”
— Anne Lamott
“Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity in moments of struggle”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced with compassion”
— James Baldwin
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free through your compassion”
“Compassion and love are not mere luxuries as the source of both inner and outer peace they are fundamental”
— Lama Surya Das
“Simplicity patience compassion these three are your greatest treasures”
“The world is changed by your example not by your opinion and compassion is the greatest example”
“It is not enough to sympathize with those who are suffering we must have compassion and take action”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos and an act of self-compassion”
“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters and compassion shapes our response”
“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness and compassion”
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution”
“The opposite of courage is not cowardice it is conformity and the absence of compassion”
— Rollo May
“When another person makes you suffer it is because they suffer deeply within themselves and faith helps us see this truth with compassion”
“We need more kindness more compassion more joy more laughter in the world”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“Be kind whenever possible and it is always possible to practice compassion in every moment”
“The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful itself. To see with compassion is to be transformed.”
— Plotinus
“Between stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our power to choose compassion”
“When you plant lettuce and it does not grow well you do not blame the lettuce you look for reasons with compassion”
“The moment we choose compassion over judgment everything shifts in our hearts”
“If the only prayer you ever say is thank you that will be enough to open the door of compassion”
— Meister Eckhart
“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is a relationship between equals”
“Every single being even those who are hostile to us is just as afraid of suffering as we are and seeks happiness through compassion”
“Compassion is not a matter of sympathy but of seeing clearly and working with what is”
“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see; that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
— Alexander Pope
“We may have different religions different languages but we all share the capacity for compassion”
— Kofi Annan
“Compassion is the wish for all beings to be free from suffering and its causes”
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
“The heart surrenders everything to the moment and the moment surrenders everything to compassion”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together with compassion”
— Marcus Aurelius
“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of compassion calling”
— Howard Thurman
— Dalai Lama XIV
“Compassion is the basis of all morality, but justice is the basis of all society.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage of compassion”
“Mercy and compassion are not weakness but the highest form of strength.”
“If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete and cannot truly extend to others”
“Compassion is an unstable emotion it needs to be translated into action or it withers”
— Susan Sontag
“I think we all have empathy but we may not all have enough courage to display it through compassion”
— Mary Angelou
“The practice of tonglen allows us to breathe in suffering and breathe out compassion for all beings”
“Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility and the beginning of all wisdom”
— Simone Weil
“I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; but I never have yet felt a tinge of regret for being a little too kind.”
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you cannot help them at least do not hurt them.”
“Whatever you do for others do it with true compassion and you will never make a mistake”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.”
“Standing at the edge of suffering with the willingness to be present is the essence of compassion”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity and the gateway to compassion”
“If you feel pain you are alive and if you feel the pain of others you are a human being practicing compassion”
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
— Francis of Assisi
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom and compassion dissolves those boundaries”
“When we feel love and compassion towards others it not only makes others feel loved but it helps us develop inner happiness”
“Compassion by its very nature cannot be touched off by the suffering of a whole class or a people but only by individuals”
— Hannah Arendt
“Wherever you go carry compassion with you for it is the lightest burden and the greatest gift”
“Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone through compassion”
— George Washington
“When another person makes you suffer it is because he suffers deeply within himself”
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now.”
— Stephen Grellet
“The expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss and not be touched by it is unrealistic and asks of compassion the impossible”
“I have learned how faces fall how terror peers from lowered eyes”
— Anna Akhmatova
“Real love always brings about growth in compassion and understanding for both the giver and receiver”
“When we practice deep looking we see that the other persons suffering is also our own suffering”
“The energy of mindfulness carries within it the energy of compassion and together they heal”
“Radical compassion begins with accepting our own imperfection and the imperfection of life itself”
“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is compassion and community”
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.”
“Whatever you do be compassionate for compassion transforms everything it touches”
“The wound is the place where the light enters you and compassion flows from that opening”
“I do not ask the wounded person how they feel I myself become the wounded person through compassion”
“Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.”
“From caring comes courage and from compassion comes strength to face any challenge”
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
— Thomas à Kempis
“The opposite of love is not hate it is indifference and compassion is the antidote to indifference”
— Elie Wiesel
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion”
“A 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 — a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.”
“He who sees the suffering of others and is moved to compassion, obeys the law written in the heart.”
— Mencius
“Compassion fatigue is not a sign of weakness but a call to deepen our practice and find renewal”
“Before enlightenment chop wood carry water and after enlightenment chop wood carry water with compassion”
“To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”
— Horace Mann
“Compassion is the key to the gate of forgiveness and forgiveness opens the door to love”
— Marianne Williamson
“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world we lose connection with the compassion that lives in our hearts”
“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable selves to be seen with compassion”
“You must not lose faith in humanity for humanity is an ocean and compassion is its deepest current”
“The more you are motivated by compassion the more fearless and confident you will become”
“When you judge another you do not define them you define yourself as someone who lacks compassion”
— Wayne Dyer
“Compassion is the basis of all morality.”
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded its a relationship between equals”
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my feet and my compassion”
— Frederick Douglass
“Compassion is a verb it requires action not just feeling”
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer”
“They alone live who live for others through compassion and selfless service”
“Compassion begins at home and when it is practiced at home it knows no limits in the world”
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
“Do your little bit of good where you are for it is those little bits that overwhelm the world with compassion”
“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely with self-compassion and understanding”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us we often find that it is those who have chosen to share our pain.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others through compassion”
“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet practicing compassion with every step”
“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them.”
“Waking up this morning I smile knowing that compassion will guide my twenty four brand new hours”
“When the heart weeps for what it has lost the spirit laughs for what it has found through compassion”
— John O Donohue
“Real compassion is being fully present to what the moment calls for without resistance”
“The practice of compassion requires discipline and concentration it is an art that demands mastery”
— Erich Fromm
“When you begin to touch your heart you discover it is bottomless and your compassion is infinite”
“Educating the mind without educating the heart in compassion is no education at all”
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change through self-compassion”
— Carl Rogers
“The whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that inspires it.”
— The Talmud
“In family the purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice through compassion”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”
“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.”
— Thomas Secker
“Compassion is the radicalism of our time and the bravest act we can perform”
“Have benevolence towards all living beings, joy at the sight of the virtuous, compassion and sympathy for the afflicted.”
— Mahavira
“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar it sees that the system which produces beggars needs restructuring”
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