Compassion Quotes

The superb use the mind as mirror, not welcoming nor rejecting, reflect without hiding, and triumph without harming. (Chuang Tzu)

~ Sung Yee Poon

The attitude of others towards you is the reflection of their state of mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I suspect that 'Kindness and Cruelty' and 'Mercy and Justice' all have secret affairs, as though they rendezvous only within certain sophisticated souls: those who hate being offensive, but love telling the truth.

~ Criss Jami

Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If your heart, mind, and actions are selfish, they will ultimately divide you, others, or entire [establishments]. When motivation is pure and selfless, it will result in helping bring others together.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Let happiness bloomIn the freshness of your mind,In the gentle wind of your thoughts.On the ground of kindness and compassion.

~ Debasish Mridha

Sometimes the heart weakens the individual that makes him/her do things he/she wouldn't normally do. Following ones heart varies by situations, but should never be followed when making decisions on critical situations. The heart is full of love and compassion thus welling to forgive, show mercy, and weakens the mind of the individual. So, be passionate of your performance and sympathize and empathize with sensitive situations, but let your mind guide your heart.

~ John Yang Aka Private83

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

~ Lolly Daskal

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

~ Lolly Daskal

Rage — whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders’ insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us — is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.

~ Bonnie Myotai Treace

Kindnessis never weaknessif it has potentialto cause death.So, if you can“kill them with kindness,”the ball is in your court.YOU have the power!

~ Melody Lee

Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.

~ Aberjhani

Babies have the power to make grumpy people happy because they love you no matter what. Dogs are that way, too.

~ Mariel Hemingway

Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

~ Criss Jami

Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.

~ Dennis Lehane

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words I still love you after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The world is best viewed through the lens of your heart.

~ Scott Stabile

We are not at the bargaining table in agreement to end abuse to our world. We are on the battlefield deciding everyday if we will let this world die or live, by how we contribute to its treatment.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Take over the school, take over the town, take over the worlds. It will be a world of compassion, of neighbor loving neighbor, of student loving student or at least treating one another with respect. No judgments. No name-calling. No more, no more, no more.

~ Jeniffer Niven

Take over the school, take over the town, take over the world. It will be a world of compassion, of neighbor loving neighbor, of student loving student or at least treating one another with respect. No judgments. No name-calling. No more, no more, no more.

~ Jeniffer Niven

Sometimes in life you find love so powerful that you get tunnel vision. You only see the one you love, the one you desire. No one or no thing gets in the way of what you feel. A love so strong which makes you feel invincible in this world. And, everywhere you go, all the people can see you glow.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Remember:all the thoughts you have of yourself and others are written on your face. Make them kind.

~ Kamand Kojouri

No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the person you aspire to be.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Im happy to sit and be an ear to listen when the world gets wild but Id much prefer to watch the ways your eyes in sparkle in the midst of convincing me why you love the things you do. It gives me hope that someone else out there feels everything with this much depth and has the willingness to create a beautiful life from it.

~ Nikki Rowe

You cannot fight hate and violence with more hate and violence, any more than you can conquer darkness with more darkness. Adding darkness only increases blackness. To subtract shadow, add light.

~ Na'ama Yehuda

When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow.

~ Na'ama Yehuda

In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.

~ Amit Ray

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings. (p. 16-17)

~ Rollo May

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?

~ Shannon L. Alder

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

~ Criss Jami

Let your conscience be your scripture and your actions be your religion. Let the humans be your church and compassion be your worship. Let love be your gospel and acceptance be your revelation.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Feel compassion for your own heart that was broken open by grief or confusion.Then tune in to the other level of that experience. Some part of you was heroic inside that moment of your life.Some part of you was looking out for you, wanting you to make it through, encouraging you to love and heal and be larger than the message you were getting. Access the hero inside your own story....

~ Laurie Perez

Compassion for oneself requires a willingness to step OUTside your own story and see it with loving eyes, the courage to recognize truth and follow new leads, the wish for your own heart to heal and the intention to add a vibrant rhythm to enhance the greater dance around you as you begin to join in.

~ Laurie Perez

You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage.

~ Debasish Mridha

A kind word will never replace the conversation that God has prompted you to repeatedly have.

~ Shannon L. Alder

They said my solution was foreign because I lived on another planet. It required honesty. It required communication. It required kindness. It required integrity. It required compassion. It required empathy. It required a deep understanding of what it meant to be humane. It required courage to be something above the others. It required proving your love of God.

~ Shannon L. Alder

One HELLO? can change a life.One HELLO? can save a life.

~ Liza M. Wiemer