Compassion Quotes

Where there is darkness, let me be the light. Where there is suffering, let me be kind and compassionate.

~ Debasish Mridha

The most compassionate thing I can do for them is continuing to see their potential. They need to know that people are not going to abandon them because of their bad behavior. Only in the security of this can they let themselves learn better strategies.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

If developing ties to this world and exercising love and compassion are not the very point of us -- I cannot presume to know -- then we are at least better occupied in this way, I feel, than with the riddles of other worlds, which only prove impossible for us to solve and unhealthy even to ponder.

~ Kevin Costner

All we have is compassion and stories.

~ Barry López

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

~ Charles Dickens

Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The people are suffering. Relieving people’s poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

~ E.m. Forster

Earl: Augh! They're trying to take the wolf off the endangered list .Mooch: I know. But did you hear what they're putting back on the endangered list? Earl: What?Mooch: Empathy and compassion.

~ Patrick Mcdonnell

I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.

~ Victoria Moran

Life can be very hard sometimes and you wonder why, but a little compassion is sometimes all anyone needs to get by.

~ Heather Wolf

Morality without kindness and compassion is very dangerous.

~ Debasish Mridha

She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.

~ E.m. Forster

How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent controlled starvation and confirmed how quickly it impacts the initiative and generosity we like to think of as American characteristics.

~ Nathaniel Philbrick

No one can read the books of Moses with any care without understanding that law can be a means of grace. Certainly this law is of one spirit with the Son of Man who says, I was hungry and you fed me. I was naked and you clothed me. This kind of worldliness entails the conferring of material benefit over and above mere equity. It means a recognition of and respect for both the intimacy of God's compassion and the very tangible forms in which it finds expression.

~ Marilynne Robinson

You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way. The pathway to enlightenment and transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

You don't think any job's a job unless it's your job.

~ Last Man Standing

Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard.

~ Geraldine Brooks

It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.

~ Richard Brookhiser

John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.

~ Paul C. Nagel

The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves--that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune's cruelest agents as well.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

~ H.w. Brands

The greatest thing a human being can do is to be compassionate to humanity.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

Love is the state of being; it is not a personal feeling directed to a particular someone. Love is beyond romance and attraction.Love is when it doesn't matter when you get that person or not because you have met your own self through that person and that self will always be with you....within you.Love is not your loftiest fantasy you always thought will happen to you. Love is not wanting someone at any cost and cursing them if you do not get them. Love is who you are - your very essence felt and experienced by all that come into your vicinity

~ Rashmit Kalra

Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.

~ M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan

~ Chris Matthews

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and compassionate towards the goal.

~ Amit Ray

No animals needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.

~ Howard Lyman

It is infinitely better to rely on the pursuit of economic interest by landowners or street companies than to depend on the dubious “altruism” of bureaucrats and government officials.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.

~ Pino Caruso

Once you come to terms with why you don't eat cats, dogs, monkeys, and dolphins, you will begin to understand why I don't eat cows, pigs, chickens, and lambs.

~ Edward Sanchez

The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

~ Stephen L. Carter

Little girls have large maternal instincts, and they take the Feast of Hungry Ghosts very seriously, and they were making their rounds with small lanterns made from candles inside rolled lotus and sage leaves. I could feel ghosts all around us, moving toward the warmth of the sweet singing voices: You are not alone, the girls sang, you are not forgotten, we care and understand, our own lives are but a candle flame from yours.

~ Barry Hughart

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A holiday is for kindness, compassion, love, and holiness; it is not for laziness or craziness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana