Commitment Quote by Joan D. Chittister

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

— Hazel Hawke

Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual,…

— Leo Buscaglia

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

— Deepak Chopra

Compassion means to suffer with someone. Compassion is a feeling, but when you truly feel another persons suffering you want to do what you…

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow…

— Matthew Fox

Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally…

— Timothy Miller

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

— Shinzen Young

Compassion is a quality which impels one to perform sacrifices.

— Radhanath Swami

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life,…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.

— Dalai Lama

Compassion is where you have to step outside of your comfort zone, and help people you dont normally associate with, is powerful.

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

— Will Tuttle