Compassion Quotes

It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.It's not about being rich or poor, it's about being alive and happy.It's not about being right, it's about being considerate and compassionate.

~ Karen L. Syed

To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52)

~ Donald Rothberg

Everyone has it within their heart to be vegan, but each time they eat anything from an animal they deny that this is so, they deny that they have enough love in their hearts to show these animals mercy and free them from our tyranny.This is a blatant lie that they keep telling themselves, time and time again. They would rather argue that they don't care about animals and find excuses to justify and continue harming them, than acknowledge any 'sissy' ability they might have to feel compassion for them.What they don't understand is, that they hurt themselves by not acknowledging this latent ability within their hearts though, and with this they deny themselves love too, for what is given out always comes back multifold.

~ Mango Wodzak

Wake up wild one! Your mind is a cageless bird waiting to fly to uncharted lands. Like the phoenix, you'll rise again with renewed vigor, clarity, compassion and insight.

~ Melody Lee

I am an artist, and a rebel one at that. I live in the voluptuous dimension of imagination, so if you're expecting normalcy (dullness) from me, sorry to disappoint, but you're quite mistaken. Ordinary is not my best attire, I've tried it and normal just never fit quite right. I will always be the crazy one who believes in magic, unicorns and impossible dreams. But also love, compassion and empathy.

~ Melody Lee

She'd been taking care of others for so long that she scarcely recognized herself when she looked in the mirror.

~ Alfa H

Broken hearts behave in a million different ways- some of them are most unpredictable. More often than not such persons build walls around them and drive their loved ones crazy with their erratic behavior. Don’t give up on them at this time; it is now that they need you the most. Give them time and space. Then nurse them, mend their broken feathers and send them on their way fully recovered ready to face the world.

~ Latika Teotia

Jake guessed Henry had been pulling shit like this on him so long that Eddie only noticed it when Henry pulled it on someone else – someone like the blonde ticket-seller.

~ Stephen King

Eden Fruitarianism is the solution to the dilemma of the screaming carrot.

~ Mango Wodzak

It is better to err on the side of feeling.

~ Marty Rubin

We all are busy in our lives handling our homes, work, various issues, ailments and so on… sometimes we don’t have a second to spare even for our own selves, so caught up with life we are…But, despite our problems, despite the pressure of anything, despite all kinds of challenges we face in our daily lives, if we can still just pause and stop to look at someone else’s problems, if we can just smile at the other person, believe me, we would have not only made someone’s day but will also feel that our own burden has become lesser and our problems may not appear to be that big after all! That’s the beauty of caring for others. Have you noticed how much at peace those people are who walk up to a perfect stranger and lend a helping hand, without being asked to and without expecting anything in return? That is what unconditional caring for others and helping others do to you. That is what service, good deeds and kindness do; they help the receiver as well as the giver.

~ Latika Teotia

You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help them, who will?

~ Terry Pratchett

I appreciate all those who are fighting to stay positive, kind and gentle in the midst of negative people. A single lamp is enough to lighten a room full of darkness; so also one single kind hearted positive person is enough to ward off all the negative, critical and difficult people. Shine on.

~ Latika Teotia

So let us recognise our shame and guilt; let us ache with self-reflection; let us eradicate the repetition of suffering and resist anger; let us learn to concretely tend to the suffering of an individual, of our common citizens, with equality; let us learn to live life with honour and dignity and a wealth of humanity.

~ Xiaobo Liu

Truly caring people know they have to take care of themselves first.

~ Marty Rubin

. . . there was something that Isabel had said that always stuck in his mind. Remember what you have and the other person doesn't. It was simple--almost too simple--advice and yet, like all such home advice, it expressed a profound truth.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, wrenches...something. Your entrails, maybe. The member of the mob who holds up the whole ceremony for seconds or even minutes while he dislodges a family of bugs or lizards from the log he is about to put on the fire.

~ William Faulkner

She remembered a word he'd often used, karuna-one of the Buddha's words, Pali for compassion, for the immanence of all living things in each other, for the attraction of life for its likeness. A time will come, he had said to the girls, when you too will discover what this word karuna means, and from that moment on, your lives will never again be the same.

~ Amitav Ghosh

It was the last time I would ever do that.

~ Gail Gillespie-Fox

If you can’t see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you’re not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself.

~ Scott Stabile

when you hate others, you hate yourself.when you hate yourself, you hate others.when you love others, you love yourself.when you love yourself, you love others.there is no separation.

~ Scott Stabile

There's no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity.

~ Germany Kent

Being right is massively overrated, especially when it comes at the expense of being compassionate and kind.

~ Scott Stabile

Approaching this day with optimism and fire, with patience and determination, with compassion and love.

~ Scott Stabile

When you give to others, you give to yourself.

~ Scott Stabile

The more attention you put into being more loving, the more loving (and loved) you'll become.

~ Scott Stabile

There's just no time for hatred. It's lazy and destructive. We can all do better. Our world needs us to.I love you.

~ Scott Stabile

Heal yourself, heal the world. To change our world, we must heal and open our hearts.

~ Eileen Anglin

I can think of no greater way to live my life than with as much love as I can give, as often as I can give it.

~ Scott Stabile

And then it hit me—I don’t have to participate in these toxic conversations. But if I choose to, I can set a different example. I can bring love to the moment,regardless of the response. I can choose to be kind, no matter what.My power lives in my love.

~ Scott Stabile

We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride.

~ Victoria Schwab

A seed cannot grow in stone. Compassion is the fertile soil where life grows.

~ Amit Ray

A seed cannot grow in stone. It requires fertile soil & water. Compassion is the soil where life grows.

~ Amit Ray

Never forget O Brave One, the best kind of existence is to exist for others.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is impossible to experience a person’s life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.

~ James Martin

Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies of the compassionate?Woe to all lovers who cannot surmount pity!Thus spoke the Devil to me once: Even God has his Hell: it is his love for man.And I lately heard him say these words: God is dead; God has died of his pity for man.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Allowance (non-judgmental, non-resistance to what Is) is a two-way street; our reaction to everyone and everything moving toward us and our reaction to our response moving forward...

~ Maximus Freeman

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.

~ Amit Ray

See this abdicated beast, once kingOf them all, nibble his claws:Not anger enough left—no, nor despair—To break his teeth on the bars.

~ Cecil Day-Lewis

Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peace and compassion.

~ Amit Ray