Compassion Quote by Milan Kundera

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

— Deepak Chopra

“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 means knowing that I may never find that person who understands my pain but through my struggle I can become one who understands.

— Rachel Hamilton

“Compassion, in an ideal sense, is your ability to put yourself in other people’s shoes regardless of what they look like, regardless of what…

— Patrick King

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

— Dalai Lama

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

— Daniel Goleman

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion…

— Anonymous

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

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 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 is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.

— Noah Webster