Compassion Quotes

To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when taken to extremes, a human being can have great concern for other human beings and absolutely no concern for themselves.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Have compassion for your past. By showing love to the present. Your past was just the portal to now.

~ Matthew Donnelly

I have three powers to win the world: my omnipotent love, my omnipresent kindness, and my omniscient compassion.

~ Debasish Mridha

A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?

~ Ron Suskind

Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Be the compassionate observer. No labels, just unconditional compassion. Fun times pass, tough times pass. Compassion will be eternal.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment...

~ Primo Levi

Food-sharing is an innate way that we show our love for people we care about. Including others in times of celebration is an act of kindness.

~ Dr. Theresa Nicassio

Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I was starting to fall for him, He didn't say it but the wayHe looked at me, Told me he felt the same.

~ Nikki Rowe

Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Your tears for others will float you closer toward God.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.

~ Primo Levi

Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning away from a difficult and principled position, which you know to be the right one, but which you decide not to take. You do not want to appear too political; you are afraid of seeming controversial; you want to keep a reputation for being balanced, objective, moderate; your hope is to be asked back, to consult, to be on a board or prestigious committee, and so to remain within the responsible mainstream; someday you hope to get an honorary degree, a big prize, perhaps even an ambassadorship. For an intellectual these habits of mind are corrupting par excellence. If anything can denature, neutralize, and finally kill a passionate intellectual life it is the internalization of such habits. Personally I have encountered them in one of the toughest of all contemporary issues, Palestine, where fear of speaking out about one of the greatest injustices in modern history has hobbled, blinkered, muzzled many who know the truth and are in a position to serve it. For despite the abuse and vilification that any outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights and self-determination earns for him or herself, the truth deserves to be spoken, represented by an unafraid and compassionate intellectual.

~ Edward Said

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Arrange your life in such a way that you don't make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Make choices in life that don't leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn't include God in the decision making process.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Good deeds awaken the good spirit of every soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Even suffering when wrapped in love, seems tolerable.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

May we find more grace to do good deeds.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If humans are kind to each other, if really humanity do exist, the world would have been a better place and we wouldn’t need to fight so much for innocent lives. This would have made our struggles easier. As I get involved more and more in protecting innocent lives my faith in Humanity fades away. What a world we live in? Can we have faith in humanity? We humans are here to protect others, but we are the very reason that their lives are in danger. How long can we fight for the week, for the voiceless? The future is so dark!!!

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

We cannot 100 percent know the depth of another person’s heart. We cannot know the whys and whats of his soul.This idea could be sad, but it doesn’t have to be. Instead of rendering human beings powerless, it could render them more compassionate. Knowing that the stranger who just bumped you in the hall or that the awkward loner who sits behind you in class each have a story, makes it easier to chose kindness — again, again, and again.

~ Chelsey Philpot

emotion untempered by reason is social suicide

~ Charles Benedict Davenport

Compassion is an act of love. You act in love to be kind, be gentle and be peaceful.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Even if it's very late at night. Someone's always awake in the world. But of all those things you could think up for people to be doing, I think going hungry would have to be your safest bet. Going hungry, pushing each other around, leaving bombs, breaking promises, leaving nothing. It happens far away all the time. But sometimes near. We're almost two kinds of people. Some of us see it on the evening news or read about it in the morning paper. And some of us get hurt. But, you know we all get hurt. Because even if you live in a very nice house like I do, sooner or later the lies and the fires have got to burn you.

~ Ann Druyan

There's something so quietly contained in the moments when one reaches their hand out to support your tragedy. It's hardly ever spoken about, but the feeling of belonging to somewhere, or someone for a split second, gives you enough power to carry on a few more steps. When the world is full of compassionate people like this, the world will know Unconditional Love.

~ Nikki Rowe

If given a choice between stoic justice and compassion, I choose compassion. And if given a choice between worldly leadership and heaven at my feet—I choose heaven.

~ Yasmin Mogahed

I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

~ Jules Verne

It took until the end of her life for me to cherish each day with my mother the way I naturally did with my brother. At the end, I loved my mother simply, without request to do better in any way, or be more capable in any way. I simply loved that she was there, and she was my mother. I wish I did that more often in my life. I will do that more often in my life for those who are still here.

~ Darcy Leech

I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length.

~ Mike Weaver

We must be passionate and controlled but not reckless. Truth is not established by shame, guilt, or coercion or tribalism. It must be established by reason, evidence, presentation, compassion, and yes, faith. It cannot be established by ridicule, mocking, or insults of sacred icons or traditions but by disproving them or establishing their lack or veracity or usefulness.

~ Leviak B. Kelly

I say, ‘We believe in a Christ’. If that being existed physically or not, it’s still important, because the message was so basic and sensible and powerful, that we should live by those truths. Love, compassion, generosity. God doesn’t punish anyone. Churches aren’t needed. Money in connection to belief is an abomination. They say, ‘Oh…’. Then they quote the Old Testament.

~ Genesis P-Orridge

Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. By the green land; by the bright hearthstone! this is the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye. No, no; stay on board, on board!- lower not when I do; when branded Ahab gives chase to Moby Dick. That hazard shall not be thine. No, no! not with the far away home I see in that eye!

~ Herman Melville

Just because it had happened before didn’t mean it wasn’t serious. It didn’t mean he didn’t need them.

~ Rainbow Rowell

To be able to put oneself in another’s position, to be able to see and to feel as another person does, this is the rare gift of an earnest spiritual seeker.

~ Amma