Compassion Quote by John Paul Lederach

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 a manifestation of the relationality that binds people together in community and that constitutes the very essence of their humanity.”

— Christopher D. Marshall

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense…

— Joan Halifax

Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the…

— Jack Kornfield

“Compassion is the love that recognizes and goes forth to identify with the preciousness of all that is lost and broken within ourselves and…

— James Finley

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the…

— Henri Nouwen

“Compassion is a beautiful grace that releases hate and fearful emotions. Through the power of compassion, when put in delicate circumstances with dysfunctional human…

— Christopher Dines

“Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturity and understanding, where you do something which makes…

— Amit Ray

“Rather, genuine compassion is based on the rationale that all human beings have an innate desire to be happy and overcome suffering, just like…

— Dalai Lama

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

— Arnold Toynbee

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there…

— Frederick Buechner