Compassion Quotes

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

~ Albert Schweitzer

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

~ Charles Bass

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

~ Anushka Sharma

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

~ Carlos Santana

I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.

~ Ellen Degeneres

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

~ Paula Cole

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

~ Eric Hoffer

Strong families serve society by bringing forth healthy children and maturing young adults, by being a rich source of a compassion for sick members, of support for others in time of crisis and of care for the elderly and the dying.

~ Vincent Nichols

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

~ Christopher Darden