Compassion Quotes

2560 Compassion quotes by 1265 unique authors

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe… — Nhat Hanh
Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond… — Dalai Lama
Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of… — Benjamin Hoff
The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of… — Desmond Tutu
Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the… — Desmond Tutu
Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can… — Joan D. Chittister
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I… — Desmond Tutu
Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal.… — Rachel Naomi Remen
What if someone hurts you with a weapon? Wait. Think it over. You probably feel angry. That's normal. But wasn't it the stick striking your… — Sylvia Boorstein
...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man… — Alexander Berkman
If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us — Zoran
When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world. — Karen Armstrong
God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to… — Karen Walker
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Can a sparrow know how a stork feels? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately… — Pliny the Elder
When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic. — Henepola Gunaratana
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms? — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this… — Benjamin Carson
A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
One man starving puts a crimp in my evening. — Woody Allen
The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same… — Mencius
Happy Wednesday! Practice compassion. Lift others. Learn to encourage rather than criticize. You'll feel better when you help others feel better. — Tracey Edmonds
If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion. — Robert Breault

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