Compassion Quotes

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

~ Booker T. Washington

We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In our long lives we endeavored to unfold the collective consciousness. In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of life.

~ R.w. Van Bemmelen

Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.

~ Mollie Marti

Inner beauty, warm-heartedness and compassion, is what brings about peace of mind.

~ Auliq Ice

We can show love, respect for others, and honesty in whatever we do to help humanity.

~ Auliq Ice

There is no fortitude like patience, just as there is no destructive emotion worse than hatred.

~ Auliq Ice

Compassion brings us peace of mind. It brings a smile to our face and genuine smiles bring us closer together.

~ Auliq Ice

Peace in the world depends on our relating to each other with compassion.

~ Auliq Ice

If in day to day life you lead a good life, honestly, with love, compassion, and less selfishness, then automatically you will find peace.

~ Auliq Ice

Happiness is not found in a life lived for the expectations of others.Rather than seek happiness living my life to please the will of others, I will seek happiness where I know it can be found—living my life to please the will of my heart.

~ Scott Stabile

I looked at my life and for the first time felt like I could hold it all. That I didn’t need to let go of anything in order to be whole. That even those things I’d been clinging to had a place in my freedom. That every single thing played its role.

~ Scott Stabile

It’s easy to rebuke each other’s opinions, but can we honor each other’s pain? Can we make the effort to see beyond the portraits we’ve painted of one another, and to connect to the humanity that thrives beneath our own assumptions? Can we be relentless in our desire to tear down walls, and to build bridges? Can we be brave and stay committed to the conversations that need to be had?The only thing I know about these questions is that I need to replace the we with I, and begin to answer them from there.One thing I know for sure: I want to become the example I wish to see in others. That's a good place to start.Another thing I know for sure: I love you. You're beautiful. You rock.

~ Scott Stabile

We are powerful beyond measure,and we must stand powerfully in the face of injustice and hate.United.

~ Scott Stabile

How much longer until we finally figure out how to be with one another?How many times do we have to play out this pain?I’m ready for something different.Aren’t you.

~ Scott Stabile

As much as I love to see the sun setting behind a city skyline,and to feel the pure majesty of a wild river or soaring mountain,and to fade, then disappear into a transcendent book, song or film,I am always most astounded, moved and transported by the warmthand kindness of a loving person. Always.

~ Scott Stabile

You change our world for the better by changing our world for the better.

~ Scott Stabile

Be a person who gives a shit about other people.

~ Scott Stabile

Here's the thing about meditation, as I try once again to make it a habit... Even when I close my eyes to meditate for five minutes, body fidgeting, mind racing and worrying and busying itself with everything but the present moment, I still feel quieter, more relaxed when I open my eyes. Maybe it's just the simple act of giving myself five dedicated minutes of attention (no matter how they play out) to the calm, knowing soul that smiles from within at all of my mental nonsense. We are beings of peace after all. And of love. So much goodness, so much understanding and compassion lives inside each of us, like wide-eyed children, always ready to come out and play.

~ Scott Stabile

We can't really know what relationships will last or not last in our lives, romantic and otherwise. What we can do is give the best we've got to the relationships we've chosen for ourselves. We can show up with an open heart and mind, be grateful for the exchange of love, and trust in however these relationships evolve. We can also be grateful for the relationships that have ended, trusting that we received from them something important that has helped to move us farther along our paths.

~ Scott Stabile

It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.

~ Sharon Salzberg

We bring happiness into the world one day at a time by accepting pain and returning understanding and compassion.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

Before I met you, my life ran on sheer amusement. After I met you, my life ran on sheer compassion.

~ Heenashree Khandelwal

In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not always wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.

~ Criss Jami

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but resistance to war, not only injustice but rebellion against injustice, not only selfishness but self-sacrifice, not only silence in the fact of tyranny but defiance, not only callousness but compassion.Human beings show a broad spectrum of qualities, but it is the worst of these that are usually emphasized, and the result, too often, is to dishearten us, diminish our spirit. And yet, historically, that spirit refuses to surrender.

~ Howard Zinn

For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.

~ Criss Jami

When Mother Nature turns on us, I hope that she doesn't show the same compassion that we, humans, show to the environment and all the other life here on Earth.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

I look around and see so much fear, people getting more and more comfortable with their hate, more at ease being mean, more united in their separation. And I think, NO. Not me. I will not get lost in this fearful world. I will not play with bullies. I will continue to be brave and kind. I will speak for real unity. And no matter what, I will never stop loving.

~ Scott Stabile

Don't trust a man who claims one a liar or a cheat, they will surely define those words of themselves.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.

~ Bertolt Brecht

Just please understand that everyone is going through a rough time as well. Even if they are hiding behind money or a simple smile. We are all continuously stumbling as we go about our lives. If we had perfect lives we'd all be perfect people. Only thing we can learn to do is endure or we will not be happy and happiness is the closest thing to perfect.

~ Hyrum Yeakley

The value of ones heart is in the reminders of what fills it,words may sustain for a while but actions will always be the hope

~ Bluenscottish

Once you start questioning your beliefs, that's when it's all over. It is truly doubt that kills our conviction.

~ Hyrum Yeakley

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.

~ Hyrum Yeakley

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding..

~ Hyrum Yeakley

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

~ Aberjhani

Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

~ Aaron Lauritsen