Compassion Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Compassion

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

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People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain

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You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller

You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw

Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma

Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb

If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert

If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

We receive this food in gratitude to all beings
Who have helped to bring it to our table,
And vow to respond in turn to those in need
With wisdom and compassion.
- Buddhist Blessing

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha

Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa

Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron

Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi

No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein

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.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa

The vast Cathedral of Your Being
becomes sanctuary for all creation
as you celebrate the universal sacraments
of compassion and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer

Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer

One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll

Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe

You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb

We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha

No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank

Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous

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