Compassion Quote by Karen Armstrong

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

— Frederick Lenz

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

— Karen Armstrong

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some…

— Paul Bloom

Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all…

— Joan D. Chittister

Compassion offers whatever is necessary to heal the hurts of others.

— Anonymous

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

— Gary Zukav

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

Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry.

— Ryuho Okawa

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Compassion is an alternate perception

— Mary Caroline Richards

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

— Deepak Chopra

Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

— Joan D. Chittister