Compassion Quote by Milan Kundera

“All languages that derive from Latin form the word "compassion" by combining the prefix meaning "with" (com-) and the root meaning "suffering" (Late Latin,…

— Milan Kundera

“The word compassion is derived from the Latin words pati and cum, meaning “to suffer with.”

— Brené Brown

“all languages that derive from Latin form the word "compassion" by combining the prefix meaning "with" (com-) and the root meaning "suffering”

— Milan Kundera

“compassion” derives from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning “to suffer, undergo, or experience.” So “compassion” means “to endure [something] with another…

— Karen Armstrong

“Compassion means "with suffering" and involves entering into the suffering of another in order to lead the way out.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

“Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means 'to suffer with,' which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering. The emotion of…

— Kristin Neff

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

— Ram Dass

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside…

— Nhat Hanh

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

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 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 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