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