compassion Quotes

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

Confucius

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

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

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

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

Saint Francis of Assisi

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

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

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope

Ursula K. Le Guin

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Dalai Lama

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

Mason Cooley

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

Buddha

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

Joseph Addison

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

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

Albert Schweitzer
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