Memorable Compassion Quotes

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"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
Ronald Reagan
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
John Green
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
Seneca
"It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."
L.R. Knost
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"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
Nelson Henderson
"Compassion is the foundation of everything good."
Dalai Lama
"If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path."
Buddha
"In compassion lies the world's true strength."
Buddha
"Let our hearts be stretched out in compassion towards others, for everyone is walking their own difficult path."
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
"We rise by lifting others."
Robert Ingersoll
"Compassion, sympathy, and empathy give the courage to lift or move mountains."
Richelle E. Goodrich
"The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern."
Joel Osteen
"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."
Paulo Coelho
"Compassion is the ability to see the inherent dignity in all people."
Hilary Clinton
"Compassion is language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain
"The purpose of human life is to show compassion and the will to help others."
Albert Schweitzer
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
Dalai Lama
"We can't heal the world today, but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, and an act of kindness."
Mary Davis
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"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others."
Yasmin Mogahed
"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness."
Mother Teresa
"The dew of compassion is a tear."
Lord Byron
"More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of compassion is the most potent weapon to own."
Anita Roddick
"Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self."
Russell Simmons
"Power, for these people, is the capacity to make us weep, to humble and shame us, a power that only the strong can show."
Stacy Schiff
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Plato
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."
Albert Schweitzer
"Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment, we rise above ourselves."
Mason Cooley
"Have compassion and empathy in your heart. Many times, those who are at the receiving end of kindness have no one else to turn to."
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
"With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings."
Barbara Deming
"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food."
Joseph Butler
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"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too."
Frederick Buechner
"Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering."
Dalai Lama
"Let our hearts be stretched out in compassion towards others, for everyone is walking his or her own difficult path."
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
"Compassion is an action word with no boundaries."
Prince
"Real compassion kicks butt and takes names. But in a way that's constructive."
Tori Amos
"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."
Mary Anne Radmacher
"It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others."
Dalai Lama
"Compassion is not just feeling with someone, but seeking to change the situation. Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action!"
Desmond Tutu
"One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls."
Jack Kerouac
"You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers."
Barbara Ehrenreich
"Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future."
Nelson Mandela
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
Plato
"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."
Dalai Lama
"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete."
Jack Kornfield
"Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves."
Mason Cooley
"Compassion is the signature of higher consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness."
Amit Ray
"Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity."
Arthur Jersild
"We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Compassion is the basis of all morality."
John Ruskin
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths."
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."
Norman Cousins
"To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Compassion is a verb."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish."
Henri Nouwen
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
Dalai Lama
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."
Dalai Lama
"Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things."
Thomas Merton
"Compassion is the radicalism of our time."
Dalai Lama
"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. They have it within their means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."
Norman Cousins
"Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek."
Dalai Lama
"Compassion isn't just feeling with someone, but seeking to change the situation. Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action!"
Desmond Tutu
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
St. Francis of Assisi
"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."
Eric Hoffer
"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another."
Thomas Merton
"The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others."
Albert Schweitzer
"True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it."
Daniel Goleman
"Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind."
Albert Schweitzer
"The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands."
Arthur H. Stainback
"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
"Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self."
Arnold J. Toynbee
"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"To respond to our nagging feelings of helplessness and despair with compassionate action is to go a long way toward solving the problems of the world."
Peter Singer
"Compassion is the foundation of peaceful existence."
Joan Chittister
"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others."
Pema Chödrön
"Compassion is the key to unlocking the door to kindness and happiness."
Deborah Smith Pegues
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