Compassion Quote by Thomas Aquinas

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

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

— Joseph Campbell

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 is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

— Arnold Toynbee

I would say I have compassion.

— Kim Delaney

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

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

— Melody Beattie

Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us…

— Tara Brach

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

— Henri Nouwen

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

— Eckhart Tolle

Compassion is an alternate perception

— Mary Caroline Richards