Compassion Quotes

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

Thich Nhat Hanh

I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.

Dalai Lama

The Secret's" message is to let go of all blame because it only destroys you, and to move forward with hope, love, compassion and kindness.

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I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.

William Carlos Williams

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

Junius

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Giovanni Boccaccio

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Christina Baldwin

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures

Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi

No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

Meister Eckhart

I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable

Dalai Lama

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Samuel Johnson

Compassion is contempt with a human face

John McCarthy

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

Joseph Butler

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

Albert Schweitzer

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson