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Compassion Quotes

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Mason Cooley

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

Shinzen Young

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

John F. Kennedy

A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.

Steve Maraboli

The highest form of wisdom is kindness.

The Talmud

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

Aberjhani

The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Harold S. Kushner

Extend your compassion to all beings, those you agree with and those you don’t.

Lori Deschene

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

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.

Francis of Assisi

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Hubert Humphrey

Compassion is at the heart of every little thing we do. It is the dearest quality we possess.

Radhanath Swami

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

Plato

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

Karen Armstrong

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Dalai Lama

When we practice loving kindness and compassion, we are the first ones to profit.

Rumi

We can’t heal the world today, but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, an act of kindness.

Mary Davis

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self.

Russell Simmons

Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.

Rachel Joy Scott

When we focus on others, our world expands.

Daniel Goleman

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Mahatma Gandhi

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love and compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

Dalai Lama

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Eric Hoffer

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

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

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

Albert Schweitzer

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Dalai Lama

Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.

Yasmin Mogahed

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

Dalai Lama

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

Until you have real compassion, you can not recognize love.

Bob Thurman

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give, even if you only have a little.

Buddha

True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

Daniel Goleman

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

Henepola Gunaratana

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

When you callously ignore the suffering of others, you lose the capacity to share their happiness, too.

Albert Schweitzer

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Amelia Earhart

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Thomas Merton

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

Aesop

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

Pema Chödrön

Compassion is the capacity to see clearly into the nature of suffering.

Joan Halifax

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

Albert Schweitzer

Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.

Jim Carrey

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Holmes

Compassion is about giving all the love that you’ve got.

Cheryl Strayed

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.

Cheryl Strayed

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other—not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learned how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Nelson Mandela

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

Prince

Compassion is not a virtue—it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have—it’s something we choose to practice.

Brené Brown