Compassion Quotes

2560 Compassion quotes by 1265 unique authors

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions… — Pema Chodron
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings. — Ram Dass
Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in… — Deena Metzger
Compassion is the chief law of human existence. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion. — Dalai Lama
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they… — John O'Donohue
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it.… — Dean Koontz
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. — Khalil Gibran
Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am… — Nhat Hanh
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final — Rainer Maria Rilke
When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do. — Rachel Naomi Remen
As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion. — Pema Chodron
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual… — George Eliot
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi
They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to… — Janet Fitch
I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death early and it… — Charlie Kaufman
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. — Rumi
One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention — Jim Rohn
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency. — Frank Portman
I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to… — Leonard Peltier
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick… — W. Somerset Maugham
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it,… — Dean Koontz
The clan of heroes, the clan of compassion,the clan of destiny." (Firestar on Thunderclan, secrets of the clans) No matter what trials we must endure,… — Erin Hunter
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. — Chinua Achebe

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