Compassion Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Compassion
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~ Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression ~

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~ Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others. ~

Pema Chodron

~ Our task must be to free ourselves . . .by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ~

Albert Einstein

~ A single God ñ touch From Godís Compassion ñ Height Can transform manís unimaginable And countless weaknesses Into Godís own infinite,Immortal and omnipotent Power. ~

Sri Chinmoy

~ God's Compassion - Eye gives us Not only one Chance But countless chances To change our wrong directions ~

Sri Chinmoy

~ Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Albert Schweitzer

~ Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ~

Albert Einstein

~ True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. ~

Joseph Addison

~ The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Albert Schweitzer

~ Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little ~

Buddha

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

Mason Cooley

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

Dalai Lama

~ The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion ~

Simone De Beauvoir

~ I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals bequeathed to the Union, cemented with blood, a moral heritage which, when drawn upon in times of stress and strife, is sure to find specific ways and means to surmount difficulties that may appear to be insurmountable ~

Felix Frankfurter

~ I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honourable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. ~

Leo C. Rosten

~ Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself ~

Sri Swami Sivananda

~ I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water ~

Maya Angelou

~ As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope ~

Ursula K. Le Guin

~ You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening ~

Sara Paddison

~ Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men ~

Confucius

~ Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives ~

Bhagavad Gita

~ Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours.Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good; and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now ~

Saint Teresa of Avila

~ It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. ~

Haile Selassie

~ Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives. ~

Bhagavad Gita

~ It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. ~

Erma Bombeck

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