Compassion Quotes

2560 Compassion quotes by 1265 unique authors

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share, — Liam Neeson
One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness. — Goldie Hawn
I would say I have compassion. — Kim Delaney
We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example… — Howard Zinn
There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and it has weakened… — Unknown Author
Stop and appreciate what you have today. Look at what you have with wider eyes, maybe with more compassion and more gratitude for the things… — Michael Imperioli
We can't fight darkness with darkness. We have to find compassion, and embrace the darkness inside of us in order to understand it and, ultimately,… — Debbie Ford
Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you. — Starhawk
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could… — Paul Newman
Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding. — Deepak Chopra
In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone who's suffering. (But we must also think about) the terrorists who are creating such… — Richard Gere
If you can see them [the terrorists] as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love… — Richard Gere
The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion. — Julian Bond
The God within is your Spiritual Heart. Your Soul. And in that individual Soul, rests God- rests the One. Go into your soul and your… — Ram Dass
It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure,… — Arianna Huffington
Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion. — Brooke Shields
Your body is not who you are. I don't think women should label themselves based on the way they look. What about defining yourself by… — Mariska Hargitay
Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As… — Joseph Campbell
The hand that punched is the hands that gives compassion — Unknown Author
Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable. — Kathi Appelt
As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions out… — Ronald Goldman
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable… — John Derbyshire
To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. Touched by the family, cuddled and comforted. A… — Daphne Sheldrick
To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all the Buddhas and… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Music has to be recognized as an…agent of social development in the highest sense, because it transmits the highest values - solidarity, harmony, mutual compassion.… — Unknown Author

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