Compassion Quotes

As people used to say, “What the heart loves is the cure.” The cure for healing the wounds and conflicts between faiths and systems of belief involves awakening to the unique ways that each heart carries devotion and love. When followed far enough, simple belief can transform into wisdom; raw passions can become a greater compassion that trusts what resides in one’s heart and even in the hearts of others. Until the heart opens and the eyes begin to see there is always the danger of blindness and narrowness and the tendency to hold onto narrow ways of being.

~ Michael Meade

The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.

~ Aldous Huxley

Honesty and kindness can do much more for the world than anything else. And logic will always be weak without a strong heart. That is why the wisest tend to suffer the most from heartbreak. One cannot reach for God in His wisdom with the heart of a devil.

~ Robin Sacredfire

I appreciate anyone that tries to make this world a better place.

~ Renae A.sauter

Despite the fact that we cannot be absolutely altruistic in our behavior, we can still build our character to be loving and compassionate – to empathize with others.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It probably takes many years of monastic practice to equal the spiritual growth generated by one sleepless night with a sick child.

~ Douglas Abrams

He taught me that it's okay to be a star, but to never forget that there are millions of other stars out there waiting for someone to recognize them for what they are - to treat people as if they too are important, special, and full of light.

~ Emily Page

Without compassion for a fellow man, for great splendors of our Sister, Mother Earth the humankind will never reconcile with itself.

~ Vinko Vrbanic

The term compassion means shared suffering. You develop compassion by knowing what it is like to suffer.

~ Victor Shamas

You can have all the titles in the world but if you cannot treat others as you would yourself, you have no love to give!

~ Kemi Sogunle

Survive, survive and survive – these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Suffering is always an invitationto awarenessand compassionand action.

~ Ivan M. Granger

Quran, like most other scriptures, is a book of most wonderful truth mixed with the most disgraceful superstitions of human nature.

~ Abhijit Naskar

True happiness isn't a disruption-free life, its learning to recognize the ever-present contentment amidst the disruptions of life. Go with the flow(non-resistance), and when you struggle, remember to be compassionate with yourself...

~ Maximus Freeman

When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We are all in the same cart, going to execution; how can I hate anyone or wish anyone harm?

~ Thomas More

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help. The danger of tying your self-worth to being a helper is feeling shame when you have to ask for help. Offering help is courageous and compassionate, but so is asking for help.

~ Brené Brown

I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great, I am interested in whether you've sat with the broken.

~ Unknown

I am not interested in whether you have stood with the great, I am interested in whether you have sat with the broken.

~ Unknown

Live a life that you do not need to take a vacation from. Live in a way that makes yearly resolutions unnecessary. Make the kind of choices that leave you Happy and Healthy... where all of your needs are satisfied. Live a life where your only ‘wants’ are for others to feel as good as you do.

~ Gary Hopkins

I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken.

~ Unknown

Compassion is that special ingredient that is often missed, and it makes a difference in building a positive environment.

~ Farshad Asl

Once a person falls in the fields of love, all the rules are already broken; the lover becomes open and exalted in ways that transcend the local issues as well as the commonly held beliefs. Love, like genuine devotion, will find a way. Where duty becomes replaced with love, a greater and deeper faith will blossom forth. For the deepest meaning of “belief” refers to being loyal to what the heart already loves. As people used to say, “What the heart loves is the cure.” The cure for healing the wounds and conflicts between faiths and systems of belief involves awakening to the unique ways that each heart carries devotion and love. When followed far enough, simple belief can transform into wisdom; raw passions can become a greater compassion that trusts what resides in one’s heart and even in the hearts of others. Until the heart opens and the eyes begin to see there is always the danger of blindness and narrowness and the tendency to hold onto narrow ways of being.

~ Michael Meade

Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves.

~ Ted Cadsby

Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life.

~ Sandra Vischer

... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!

~ Charles Dickens

No amount of money can fill your heart up with what kindness and compassion can.

~ Eileen Anglin

The invisible fuel for this healing process is our heartfelt compassion and loving presence and the sincerity of the collective intention that we bring to it.

~ William Keepin

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.

~ Alexandre Dumas

COMPASSION ALERT:As we enter the Season of Goodwill - Feel the warm glow in your heart by lighting up a smile on someone's face

~ Kamil Ali

The time has come for women and men to band together to jointly create gender harmony. We must gather in mixed group to plumb new depths of relational awareness, courageous truth-telling, compassionate listening, empathic sensitivity, and mutual healing.

~ William Keepin

Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you're about to react harshly and you'll avoid doing and saying things you'll later regret.

~ Lori Deschene

How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs?

~ Mango Wodzak

Love is an energy that is addictive, contagious and free. Earn it, chase it, give it to those in need.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

Choose empathy over apathy.

~ Mango Wodzak

One of my greatest fears, and what might be one of the greatest obstacles to ending or putting a massive dent in extreme poverty alleviation, is this: when everyday, normal people feel as if they can't help. Let me repeat: this is a tragedy.In fact, I would say it is the ordinary people who will determine how much impact is done in the world. It's the ordinary folks who have a great responsibility. If individuals like you and me decide in our hearts to be deliberate and care for the poor, there is no doubt we can truly see the majority of extreme poverty vanish into thin air.

~ Chris Marlow

Truth is on the side of compassion.

~ Christina Hoff Sommers

When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to—a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours.

~ Sophocles

Let those feelings out. Talk about it. Even if you’re talking to your journal by yourself in an empty room. That still counts. That still matters.If you know someone who’s struggling and isolated, help them talk about it. Even if they don’t have the right words. Even if you sit in silence as they try to feel safe. Even if they shower you with complaints, excuses, and justifications. Even if you can see they’re just playing small, being irrational, blaming circumstances. Just be there. It all counts. It all matters.

~ Vironika Tugaleva