Compassion Quotes · Page 76

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

— Andy Rooney

Hope is like compassion to me. It's like possibility and living in possibility.

— Morley

“The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.”

— Bertolt Brecht

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

— Pope Francis

All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.

— Avi

“When you smile and no one else is around, you definitely mean it.”

— Raymond D. Longoria Jr

“To be set free, turn away from your sins. And return to God of great mercy.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Book learning and accomplishment in the world mean nothing if you do not have compassion, Crispin.”

— Marguerite Poland

I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics.…

— Tom DeLay

I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense…

— Jonathan Evison

I'm often times so busy caring for others & taking care of others I forget about myself. I gotta take care of…

— Anonymous

“Kind people are brave people. Brave is not something you should wait to feel. Brave is a decision. It is a decision…

— Glennon Melton

Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around…

— Eve Ensler

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for…

— Ambrose Bierce

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a…

— Richard Russo

“Sometimes, all we need is just one person who believes in us and who will never give up on us. Someone who…

— Jocelyn Soriano

Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may…

— John A. Lejeune

Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the…

— Ram Dass

“Do not desire chiefly to be cherished and consoled by God; desire above all to love Him. Do not anxiously desire to…

— Thomas Merton

“It's easy to hate women and hate women's bodies when we don't do very much to fight back. We have to step…

— Wendy Shanker

We do have to treat people the way Americans always treat people, with the highest level of compassion and care. But they…

— Marco Rubio

“You have compassion but by itself it is not enough. It is almost as if you carry around inside you some dead…

— John Dolan

English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left…

— Karl Marx

“I believe that compassion is the key to our evolution as a species.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough.”

— Osho

True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.

— Dillon Burroughs

A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

— Jackie Tabick

To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

— Rupert Giles

There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.

— Warren E. Burger

“compassion is a wonderful virtue but don’t waste it on those undeserving.”

— Bruce Springsteen

God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

— Pope Francis

“It is better to carry mercy in your hands than bitterness in your heart.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“In that world where jingles replace doxology, God is not free and the people know no justice or compassion.”

— Walter Brueggemann

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

— Ron Smothermon

If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

— Bryant H. McGill

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

— Robert Breault

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

— Joseph Campbell