Compassion Quotes

2560 Compassion quotes by 1265 unique authors

When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He’s offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person’s life. You… — Joel Osteen
Many people are unhappy and are not experiencing life to its fullest because they’ve closed their hearts to compassion, they are motivated by only what… — Joel Osteen
One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will… — Dalai Lama
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at… — Nhat Hanh
Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable. — Nick Hornby
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry… — John Adams
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so… — Lionel Shriver
Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children,… — Wendell Berry
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way. — Nhat Hanh
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to… — Andrew Harvey
To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long,… — Jeffrey R. Holland
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted. — Betty Smith
In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling. — Leo Tolstoy
It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless. — Tim Winton
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the… — Robin McKinley
Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world… — Dalai Lama
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. — Mother Teresa
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. — Thomas Browne
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way… — George Eliot
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. — Jack Kerouac
Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion,… — Maya Angelou
Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost… — Chris Abani
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is… — Dalai Lama
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills. — R. Scott Bakker

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