Compassion Quotes

2560 Compassion quotes by 1265 unique authors

To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life… — Jack Kornfield
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would… — William Faulkner
Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end. — Immanuel Kant
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their… — Orson Scott Card
I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether… — Henry James
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. — Dalai Lama
A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you. — Dalai Lama
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion… — Dalai Lama
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is,… — Dalai Lama
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. — Abraham Lincoln
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. — Edith Wharton
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and… — Christopher Hitchens
My actions are my only true belongings. — Nhat Hanh
I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability… — Bret Easton Ellis
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past… — Giovanni Boccaccio
Our own life has to be our message. — Nhat Hanh
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They… — Viktor E. Frankl
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to… — Jack Zipes
Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short… — Alice Walker
The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity… — Dalai Lama
That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who… — Ayn Rand
When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When… — Dalai Lama
Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it. — Rush Limbaugh
All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion. — Joseph Campbell

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