Memorable Quotes About Compassion

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"Compassion is the basis of all morality."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real."
Marge Piercy
"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
"Compassion is an amazing quality that no machine can ever possess."
Debasish Mridha
"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete."
Jack Kornfield
"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein
"Compassion is the signature of higher consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness."
Amit Ray
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"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
John Bunyan
"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."
Maya Angelou
"True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but being moved to help relieve it."
Daniel Goleman
"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin."
Frederick Buechner
"Compassion changes us, challenges us, and ultimately makes us more human."
Jane Goodall
"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees."
Amelia Earhart
"Compassion is language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain
"The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate."
Richard G. Scott
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
John Green
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."
Oscar Wilde
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles."
Willa Cather
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
Dalai Lama
"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
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
Aesop
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"Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer."
Rachel Joy Scott
"In a world where you can be anything, be kind."
Jennifer Dukes Lee
"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."
Albert Schweitzer
"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
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."
Confucius
"Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is 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
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
"Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count."
Rue McClanahan
"The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone."
William J.H. Boetcker
"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness."
Mother Teresa
"A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."
Steve Maraboli
"Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths."
Rumi
"Real compassion kicks butt and takes names and is not pleasant on certain days. If you are not ready for this, do not start."
Anne Lamott
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"Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
Desmond Tutu
"Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity."
Pema Chodron
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength."
Dalai Lama
"Compassion is empathy in action."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Compassion is a verb."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals."
Pema Chödrön
"Compassion is the foundation of peaceful existence."
Mattie Stepanek
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Compassion is the key in lessening stress."
Dalai Lama
"When we practice loving kindness and compassion, we are the first ones to profit."
Rumi
"Let compassion be your North Star."
Karen Salmansohn
"Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering."
Dalai Lama
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Compassion is the ultimate source of success in life."
Dalai Lama
"Real compassion kicks butt and takes names. It is fierce and it is not afraid to make demands."
Sister Souljah
"Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves."
Mason Cooley
"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
"Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing and the willingness to do it."
Elbert Hubbard
"True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it."
Daniel Goleman
"Compassion is the universal language of the world."
Unknown
"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
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
Dalai Lama
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things."
Thomas Merton
"The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others."
Albert Schweitzer
"Compassion is an action word with no boundaries."
Prince
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Ian Maclaren
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."
Dalai Lama
"If you want to understand the essence of life, practice compassion."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self."
Russell Simmons
"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
"In compassion, when we feel with the other, we dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and we elevate the other to the place where we are."
Jean Vanier
"Compassion is the radicalism of our time."
Dalai Lama
"What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible."
Theodore Roethke
"It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers and sisters."
Thomas Merton
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being."
Dalai Lama
"Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. You'll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today."
Amy Leigh Mercree
"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
"We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond."
Gwendolyn Brooks
"Compassion is the foundation of all forms of goodness and the starting point for all spiritual practices."
Amit Ray
"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
"The dew of compassion is a tear."
Lord Byron
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