Compassion Quotes

Jake guessed Henry had been pulling shit like this on him so long that Eddie only noticed it when He...

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the p...

Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.

Just because she isn't human, do you think that means she doesn't feel pain?

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a ...

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which doe...

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio...

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-...

You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help ...

You know what?' said Vimes aloud. 'This is going to be the world's first democratically killed drago...

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer becau...

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.

Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned...

Pardon all runners,All speechless, alien winds,All mad waters.Pardon their impulses,Their wild attit...

It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When...

We overcome the evil in the world by the charity and compassion of God, and in so doing we drive all...

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it o...

We are all in the same cart, going to execution; how can I hate anyone or wish anyone harm?

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements wh...

Take off that coat,' he told him.'Sir?''You heard me.'The boy slipped out of his jacket, whining, 'W...

But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman—you are as an animal—'an...

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are...

He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really ...

In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.

With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes ...

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the pri...

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reve...

The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is ...

If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of...

Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians name...

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. T...

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let...

We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only ...

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would...

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

That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kin...

I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied...

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than child...

People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, w...

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and c...

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel t...

Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compass...

I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in "the crowded street of life." That in itself nee...

We are not judges of each other's hearts; that belongs to a higher tribunal.

In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed f...

The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple...

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides pote...

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more tha...

There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear eithe...

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potent...

There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, r...

Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dis...

Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide ...

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that in...

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace ...

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made ...

Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, nobl...

The problem, unstated until now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to ...

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upo...

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

How can I be so captured by my own imagination that I can truly connect both to the person I'm playi...

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know thi...

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He exp...

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living cre...

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatu...

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivi...

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it emb...

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suf...

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find pe...

The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a ma...

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give peopl...

With the ferrule of his walking-stick Denis began to scratch the boar's long bristly back. The anima...

The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawki...

. . . there was something that Isabel had said that always stuck in his mind. Remember what you have...

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emot...

When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life ...

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held...

Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even wh...

In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all...

There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatr...

There are miracles and glory in every child. Our glory lies in empowering them to flourish their glo...

When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.

We live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance.

In reality, we live in every one. Deep down there is a rose in every heart.

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.

A seed cannot grow in stone. Compassion is the fertile soil where life grows.

Enlightenment is the transformation that brings out the highest human qualities. It is the process t...

Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpilla...