Compassion Quotes

2560 Compassion quotes by 1265 unique authors

Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in a feast of… — Iyanla Vanzant
A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the… — David A. Cooper
We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion. — Mata Amritanandamayi
The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed; it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are… — Marianne Williamson
The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try… — Mark Twain
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. — Michael E. DeBakey
Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that… — Adyashanti
When love overflows and is expressed through every word & deed, we call it compassion. That is the goal of religion. — Mata Amritanandamayi
If we have love and compassion in our hearts, then we will wholeheartedly serve those who suffer from lack of food, clothing and shelter. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Children, we may go to the temple, reverently circumambulate the sanctum sanctorum and put our offering in the charity box, but on our way out… — Mata Amritanandamayi
In today's world, people experience two types of poverty: the poverty caused by lack of food, clothing and shelter, and the poverty caused by lack… — Mata Amritanandamayi
In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Children, not a grain of the food we eat is made purely by our own effort. What comes to us in the form of food… — Mata Amritanandamayi
If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn… — Louise Hay
I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making of special laws… — Samuel J. Tilden
Look upon yourself only with compassion. — Todd Rundgren
Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order. — Camille Paglia
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others. — Sue Monk Kidd
The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even… — Thom Hartmann
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the… — Terry Eagleton
Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us. — Christy Turlington
Why does God endow us with compassion? — Franz Schubert
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised. — Julian Baggini
I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion. — Elizabeth Berkley

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