Compassion Quotes

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

~ Karen Armstrong

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

~ Frederick Buechner

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

~ Haile Selassie

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

~ Amy Grant

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.

~ Tara Brach

As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

~ Tracee Ellis Ross

Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.

~ John Mcafee

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

~ Anton Chekhov

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.

~ Davey Havok

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

~ Confucius

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

~ Kevin Rudd

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

~ George W. Bush

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

~ Sharon Salzberg

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

~ Gary Oldman

I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.

~ Diane Ackerman

Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.

~ Klaus Schwab

For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.

~ Ann Mclane Kuster

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

~ Mo Yan

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

~ Norman Cousins

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

~ Albert Schweitzer

The dew of compassion is a tear.

~ Lord Byron

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

~ George Saunders

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

~ Ted Olson

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

~ Steven Curtis Chapman

Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.

~ Mother Angelica

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

~ Carlos Santana

As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

~ Craig T. Nelson

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

~ Andrea Thompson

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

~ Bartlett Sher

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

~ Milan Kundera

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

~ Susan Vreeland

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

~ Bill Gates

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

~ Dalai Lama

I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.

~ Klaus Schwab

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

~ Erma Bombeck

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

~ Dean Ornish

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

~ Adam Rapp