Compassion Quotes

Part of me felt deep compassion. And another part felt like, You fucker.

~ Augusten Burroughs

No separation of distance, no separation of time, no separation of any kind need lessen compassion.

~ Zechariah Barrett

Even while we hate, we still have that deep unusual  compassion for our rivals, and they hate it when they realize that we are feeling sorry for them.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal; and though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part, and prophesy in part.But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

~ Saint Paul The Apostle

What do you believe in ?People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything to abolish it. To tell you the truth, nothing else seems to me of any importance.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Trauma ruptures and hollows. Compassion mends and fills, love heals.

~ Na'ama Yehuda

Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!

~ Charles Dickens

Happiness is an inner perception. It comes from simplicity, kindness, love, and compassion.

~ Debasish Mridha

Compassion for humanity begins with compassion and respect for all beings.

~ Jeffrey A. White

caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.

~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

Compassion is happiness.

~ Sixeye

Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In that moment, the moon and the sun shared the sky. For all of eternity, the moon and sun have chased each other around the world. Long into the future, they will continue this chase, merging the days into months into years into centuries, until the day the sun cannot take the separation any longer and she shatters, engulfing the moon and everything else in a burst of light. Most will call it the day of final judgment. The end. To the sun and the moon, it will only be the beginning.For the smallest of instants each day, they pause in this chase. They pause and look back at one another, smiling as if sharing a secret. Two lovers that can never exist as one, except in that single, brief instant. Lying there, Persephone smiled too. And as quickly as a smile parts two lips, the two sky wanderers parted ways. The chase was on again. Night gave way to day.That is true love, she had always thought. No force but love can impel one to step willingly into the shadows so that the other may shine.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a better person.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I replay the scene again and again, the broken mashed-up face looming over me, the knowledge between the two of us that I'd done it. That act of kindness is still more unfathomable to me than any cruelty.

~ Stephanie Oakes

Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

~ Langston Hughes

In a corner of her heart she imagined her compassion as kindling that could ignite not only her tender and guarded feelings for her mother, but also jump across the void and ignite her mother’s feelings for her.

~ Sonja Yoerg

It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.

~ David Halberstam

The person you think is useless and a nobody today, might be the very person you will need tomorrow. Never look down on anyone.

~ Bien Sufficient

To help people, love them. Then, they help themselves.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

~ David Brooks

As the flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

~ Amit Ray

If only you could be yourself. they shouted. So, she did. You are not like me or anyone I have met! they screamed. So, she blended. You are so fake. they laughed. So, the caterpillar retreated to her cocoon to find peace alone. One day, they came to find her gone. She left a message, “God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see...I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me--better.

~ Shannon L. Alder

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.

~ Nikolai Gogol

In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a matter only of arranging and deepening current views of good and evil, but also of expanding and extending these. A man is really ethical only when he obeys the constraint laid on him to help all life which he is able to succour, and when he goes out of his way to avoid injuring anything living. He does not ask how far this or that life deserves sympathy as valuable in itself, nor how far it is capable of feeling. To him life as such is sacred. He shatters no ice crystal that sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from its tree, breaks off no flower, and is careful not to crush any insect as he walks. If he works by lamplight on a summer evening, he prefers to keep the window shut and to breathe stifling air, rather than to see insect after insect fall on his table with singed and sinking wings.

~ Albert Schweitzer

Let integrity, humility, kindness, compassion, peace, and unity follow you wherever you go. We still have a chance at making this world a better place for us and our future generations. Stop Complaining about all the negativity in this world and start contributing more positive words, decisions, and actions to it.

~ Hafiz

We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.

~ V.c. Andrews

Never embarrass a student in front of others. Embarrass yourself often to relieve the tension, but do not paint them into a corner.

~ Harry Gilbert

...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...

~ Marquis De Sade

Humanity need not be taught in schools, it is a gift and skill one should master.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity, for whom we are powerless to offer aid, we are beyond mercy.

~ Dean Koontz

Every living thing is sacred to me. Compassion and love can heal this world, which is set on fire of violence and hatred. I will teach the world about compassion, and end the suffering by halting these floods of sorrow. Said Prince Siddhartha and began his journey of saving the man kind.”

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Be Relentless in your Compassion for it is Your Power.

~ Odille Rault

Humanity is not only ‘great acts’ spending thousands, putting your name on headlines. Humanity is to be kind to every living being, to be compassionate towards all, even to the tiniest animal, seen and unseen. Some people consider killing ants or pest normal, but I find it is an act of extreme cruelty. By killing them you violate their rights to live. We must remember that the earth and the universe belongs to all of us. We are just another species out of millions of species, and we share the universe with them and most importantly, remember that we belong to each other.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

...Daisy doesn't even go to his funeral, Nick and Jordan part ways, and Daisy ends up sticking with racist Tom... you can tell Fitzgerald never took the time to look up at clouds during sunset, because there's no silver lining at the end of that book, let me tell you. I do see why Nikki likes the novel, as it's written so well. But her liking it makes me worry now that Nikki really doesn't believe in silver linings, because she says The Great Gatsby is the greatest novel ever written by an American, and yet it ends so sadly. One thing's for sure, Nikki is going to be very proud of me when I tell her I finally read her favorite book. -Silver Linings Playbook, p. 9

~ Matthew Quick

We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.

~ Jane Wilson-Howarth

No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.

~ Brené Brown