Compassion Quotes

Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.

The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

I don't want to grow up, I want to grow down

The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.

I'm glad I'm funny. I'm glad I make people happy, because that's very important. But I'm proud to be known as a kind person.

The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

What I strive to do through my work, is to teach compassion. You need to have a lot of it, in this day and time, and it's lacking.

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

How could I be out there and not do anything?

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

When one begins to really feel into the spiritual dimension of their beings, they bump into love. They bump into compassion. They bump into beauty.

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.

Fair and softly goes far.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.

I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

Oxytocin is lauded for how it promotes warmth, generosity, social bonding, cooperation, trust, and compassion.