Compassion Quote by Karen Armstrong

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 feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.

— Karen Armstrong

Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.

— Gautama Buddha

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

— Frederick Lenz

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

“While pity shows a lack of respect for other human beings, compassion has its roots in a deep respect for others. Pity is an…

— Matt Litton

Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their…

— Jasinda Wilder

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

— Dalai Lama

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with…

— Richard Steele

Compassion makes you feel sadness. Sympathy only makes you feel pity.

— Anonymous