Compassion Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Compassion
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~ Compassion is an alternate perception ~

M.C. Richards

~ If you live for love you spread kindness and compassion everywhere you go. When you stop believing in your heart you are but a sterile vessel wandering in the wilderness. ~

Francis Hegmeyer

~ Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts. ~

Barbara Garrison

~ Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts. ~

Barbara Garrison

~ It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. ~

Marian Wright Edelman

~ All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. ~

Dalai Lama

~ 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. ~

Dalai Lama

~ A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ~

Abraham J. Heschel

~ For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Volunteering creates a national character in which the community and the nation take on a spirit of compassion, comradeship and confidence. ~

Brian O\'Connell

~ Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription. ~

Val Saintsbury

~ Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. ~

Buddha

~ Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ "Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs." ~

William Wordsworth

~ So, I think thatís the centerpiece of morality: Donít lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is. You know, itís easy to say, ìIíll never tell a lie.î But if you say, ìIím going to speak the truth,î youíre going to have to work damn hard to find out what the truth is. The next thing is just plain, old, simple kindness: to other people, to your family. Love for other people. I think thatís another very important part of morality, being genuinely compassionate and concerned about the feelings and well being of other people, especially those that depend on you directly. ~

George McGovern

~ ...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. ~

Sogyal Rinpoche

~ I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it ~

Thomas Aquinas

~ I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it ~

Thomas Aquinas

~ Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation ~

Henry Ward Beecher

Dalai Lama

~ Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Compassion is the basis of all morality ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ Compassion is the basis of all morality ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others,whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ~

Abraham J. Heschel

~ For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again. ~

Paula Cole

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

Eric Hoffer

~ 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 Toynbee

~ There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. ~

Milan Kundera

~ Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. ~

Eric Hoffer

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