Compassion Quotes

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures.

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.

Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us.

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

A kind heart speaks kind words.

We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.

Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Each and every animal on earth has as much right to be here as you and me

Compassion is an essential element of love.

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve. ...... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

If you have any of these qualities... love, kindness, compassion, sincerity and truth in your heart.... you will always find your way home.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.

It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

Spirituality, a defended person has no room for love or compassion-he is too busy defending himself.

This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling.

The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the world.

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.

Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

These are 8- and 12-year-old kids. It doesn't matter how they got here. It is time to show a little compassion

No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.