Compassion Quote by Stephen Levine

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

— Anonymous

“Compassion arises spontaneously from wisdom.”

— Eric Weiner

“It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear…

— Jean-Yves Leloup

“There is beauty in compassion, but one must learn wisdom too.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Compassion itself is noble.”

— Ogyen Trinley Dorje

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“True compassion comes by living in the shoes of another, providing a perspective closer to that of God.”

— Jason Micheal Ratliff

“Like the quality of mercy, the prompting of compassion is not finite, and can be self-replenishing.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“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 doesn't have to be learned. It's part of our fabric. We have just been programmed to neglect it over time, and THAT is…

— Joan Marques

Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart.

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

“Wisdom is the clear seeing of the impermanent, conditioned nature of all phenomena, knowing that whatever arises has the nature to cease. When we…

— Joseph Goldstein