Compassion Quotes

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect a...

P71- if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into di...

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money i...

You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyo...

To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby ...

She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

No amount of 'peace-building' will be able to last, nor will harmony and happiness be attained, in a...

If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.

Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment...

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know hea...

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, an...

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and g...

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. I...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disa...

The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, “We’ve got enough p...

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you d...

I was not always that way, but perhaps the shadow Earth, where I spent so many years, mellowed me a ...

Curious, he thought, how, if you knew a person long enough, he could elicit every kind of emotion fr...

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identif...

What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rub...

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can...

Interestingly, one mate of mine, a proper leftie, in his heyday all Red Wedge and right-on punch-ups...

The Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing tells the story of the gangster leaders who carri...

I want the white one

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandal...

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive...

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs yo...

What do you believe in ?""People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do eve...

I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mo...

And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not quea...

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisi...

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...