Compassion Quotes

Bob Marley

One love, one heart, one destiny.. Bob Marley
One love, one heart, one destiny.

Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself.. Eric Micha'el Leventhal
He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself.

Tahereh Mafi

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

Dalai Lama XIV

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

John Joseph Powell

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

Amit Ray

Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher
Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.

Amit Ray

There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.. Amit Ray
There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.

John Green

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.. John Green
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Amit Ray

The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart
The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.

Dalai Lama XIV

The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

Mollie Marti

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

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Sometimes in life you find love so powerful that you get tunnel vision. You only see the one you love, the one you desire. No one or no thing gets in the way of what you feel. A love so strong which makes you feel invincible in this world. And, everywhere you go, all the people can see you glow.

Germany Kent

At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.

Germany Kent

1164At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.

Agnostic Zetetic

Even with the very best of intentions, even with the ambition of making the world a better place, when we cast judgment upon people whose lifestyles, beliefs, or predilections we dislike, we add to the emotional filth of hostility and make the world feel a little less safe for the folks we’re genuinely trying to help.

Lolly Daskal

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

Lolly Daskal

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

Lolly Daskal

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

Anthony De Mello

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.

Rebecca McNutt

Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took.

Amit Ray

Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass
Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.

Pam Farrel

The world hangs like a heart-shaped locket around my neck.

Dinty W. Moore

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.

In your writing and your life.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.

Kristina McMorris

The most wonderful type of love, she had learned, was the kind built with care and over time, through forgiveness and understanding, compromise and compassion, trust and acceptance. It was hidden in the minutiae of every day life; it was in the traded smiles during a radio show or the peaceful lulls on an evening stroll.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free

Jeniffer Niven

Take over the school, take over the town, take over the world. It will be a world of compassion, of neighbor loving neighbor, of student loving student or at least treating one another with respect. No judgments. No name-calling. No more, no more, no more.

Yvonne Pierre

Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.

Aisha Mirza

Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

Christopher Moore

The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.

Jennifer Hillman

Whisper sweetly the tenderness of the moment. Let the love teach you the true meaning and passion of this experience we share. With gratitude and reverence for the blessings and miracles I receive and witness, my heart still beats as the little things die to be reborn with a greater joy for life in each moment.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love

Randy Alcorn

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Sharon Salzberg

Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart

Sharon Salzberg

In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

Sharon Salzberg

Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another.

Meditation is a way to help those values become real in day-to-day life, helping people to understand themselves more and more and have a way to not get lost in old patterns.

Sharon Salzberg

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Sharon Salzberg

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.

Sharon Salzberg

When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

All work done with love is healing work.

Allan Lokos

Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are.

Rob Liano

Until people learn to love others more than they love to hate others, not much will change in this world.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don't imagine that it's there; it's there waiting to be noticed.

Bill Ayers

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

Pythagoras

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

Mother Teresa

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same - with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Gautama Buddha

True love is born from understanding.

Tahereh Mafi

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.

In seventeen years no one has said my name like that

George Carlin

If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.

Albert Camus

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Noah Levine

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the
Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

Rai Aren

I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends - the fear, the terror, the pain - and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being.

Marc Bekoff

Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet

Sam Levenson

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Aesop

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Mother Teresa

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

Rumi

Give your weakness to one who helps.

Charles De Lint

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

Horace Mann

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Poetry is Life. We experience poetry from the time we awake each morning and inhale that fresh breath of air. You are living poetry. Poetry is not defined by the laws of man. Inspiration is the key.

Gary Hopkins

People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.

Aberjhani

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

Doug Dillon

Other people are only aspects of our own greater being.

Elizabeth Bear

She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?"
"In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

Amit Ray

When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.

Ana Monnar

At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling period wisdom sets in; finally, the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.

Amit Ray

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.

Allan Lokos

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.. Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Each person you meet
is an aspect of yourself,
clamoring for love.

Jean-Yves Leloup

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

Stephen Levine

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Jean-Yves Leloup

It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.

Amit Ray

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.

Amit Ray

Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.

Margaret Atwood

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and
We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

Allan Lokos

Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.

Allan Lokos

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

Lao Tzu

The heart that gives, gathers.. Lao Tzu
The heart that gives, gathers.

Mollie Marti

Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.

Allan Lokos

Peace can be found within, no matter the external circumstances.

Odille Rault

Be Relentless in your Compassion for it is Your Power.

Donna Marie Timney

If kindness isn't your strong suit, then you need to change clothes.

Jinvirle

I live in such a way that those who know me but do not know God will come to know God because they know me.

Gary Hopkins

Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Beware pride; it would have us seek revenge from those most deserving of our pity.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Quiet moments bring you closer to God. It's your silent time within your own private sanctuary. People have so many things to talk about, worry about, think about, without giving themselves peace within. Quiet moments give you access to areas of your brain which allows you to function proficiently.

Dalai Lama XIV

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama XIV

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Bronnie Ware

There is a fine line between compassion and a victim mentality. Compassion though is a healing force and comes from a place of kindness towards yourself. Playing the victim is a toxic waste of time that not only repels other people, but also robs the victim of ever knowing true happiness.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

People will always notice something about you. It might be the way you walk or the way you talk, or just simply your personality. Live each day in the way you want to be remembered. Live in such a way that people will be inspired by those unique qualities that you have and strive to live better lives for themselves.

Booker T. Washington

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

Amit Ray

Compassion stands on the pillars of trust, love, awareness and detachment.

Amit Ray

Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.

Amit Ray

Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.

Matthieu Ricard

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Everything that looks good may not be good for you. In life, we all take chances. You must carefully examine the pros and cons. People often times have certain hidden agendas. And, you might not realize until you're in too deep.

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