Compassion Quotes

To find inner peace, exercise kindness and compassion.

~ Debasish Mridha

Why is there such madness in our world? Why can’t we stop it? Why do we hate others? Tolerance, harmony, compassion, and kindness are the beauty of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

Why do we teach our children to hate others when there are so many options to love? Why do we teach hate when kindness, compassion, tolerance, and harmony add such beauty to life?

~ Debasish Mridha

I am a farmer of kindness and compassion, I plant the seeds of love in my garden.

~ Debasish Mridha

Love is a flower that grows in the garden of mind if we treat it with kindness, compassion, and joy.

~ Debasish Mridha

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

~ Andrew Boyd

Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans- or even other animals, including members of the same species- an individual's pain, suffering, and anxiety matter.

~ Marc Bekoff

I had to learn to see my shadow and hold my pain in its fullness with acceptance and forgiveness so that I could release the hate I felt for myself and quit hurling it blindly toward others.

~ Scott Stabile

I am sorry, Miss Grey, you should think it necessary to interfere with Master Bloomfield's amusements; he was very much distressed about you destroying the birds.''When Master Bloomfield's amusements consist in injuring sentient creatures,' I answered, 'I think it my duty to interfere.''You seemed to have forgotten,' said she, calmly, 'that the creatures were all created for our convenience.'I thought that doctrine admitted some doubt, but merely replied - 'If they were, we have no right to torment them for our amusement.

~ Anne Brontë

God whispered, You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We are born with the innate capacity to express empathy. Experiencing our own cuts and bruises, encountering our own difficulties and disappointments, expands our cognitive world and rouses the universal desire to understand and comfort other people in pain.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.

~ Criss Jami

We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Spread love, joy and compassion because the world needs it, for hatred and pain need no escort; they know how to survive without it.

~ Radhika Mundra

Vesper felt herself turning red with humiliation. Then she looked at Allegra—really looked at her. Maybe she’d had such a problem with people not seeing her because she wasn’t seeing them. Did Allegra’s mask of rage hide pain and doubt that anyone would ever truly love her? She thought that it just might. Vesper didn’t quite feel compassion, but she no longer took Allegra’s behavior personally.

~ Colleen Chen

Forgive and be happy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If your children asked you about your honesty with God, Let them look at the pictures with the person you married and was the reason they're alive...and they will understand.

~ Rscruz

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Love seeks the best. Love endures all times. Love never changes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is the spirit of divinity within every man.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us.

~ Allan Lokos

I show up for my fellow man by sharing my inner wealth. I generously give out compassion and acceptance wherever I go.

~ Renae A. Sauter

Every act of kindness is a seed of success.

~ Walter E. Jacobson

All at once it occurs to me that I'm the one who needs to give myself the break, to accept myself for who I am.

~ Liza M. Wiemer

The greatest asset you could own, is an open heart.

~ Nikki Rowe

Good deeds awakens the good spirit of every soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We ought to be patient at all times.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

~ Lemony Snicket

Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Greatness is not found in power, it is not found in money, it is not found in the ability to conquer. Greatness is found in humility, in compassion, and in the ability to think outside oneself.

~ Molly Anne Marie

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

~ Thomas More

When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.

~ Amit Ray

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

~ Muhammad Ali

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

~ Criss Jami

Is he weeping? said the one with the softest heart.

~ Mary Renault

Then her heart opened wider than it ever had before, and all she saw before her, everywhere she looked, were people to love.

~ Scott Stabile

When love fills your heart, all bridges lead to something wonderful. (All roads and tunnels too!)

~ Scott Stabile