Compassion Quotes

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair, crooked toes. I support those who have done nothing large.

It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.

The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.

Bodh Gaya is a land of enlightenment. Years ago, what Bodh Gaya got was Siddhartha but what Bodh Gaya gave to the world was Lord Buddha, the epitome of knowledge, peace and compassion.

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.

In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.

By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.

Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.

It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.

Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.

By “empathy,” some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.

I now have a greater compassion than I have ever had before to know what it is to have the pain of a broken marriage. And I'm not saying I have an answer or solution for everyone.

we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.

I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there.

We're being asked to bring our humanness along in holding that love and compassion for ourselves as we make our way through this energetic time of transformation.

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

Such sorrow— The cry of true compassion Sinks into my hard ego.

In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.

Try to develop some genuine love and compassion, some real caring for others.

I want to be a man who mixes strengths and compassion. That's my magic elixir, so to speak.

Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.

Shift from judgment to compassion to love.

Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

Authentic power is the energy that Is formed by the intentions of the Soul. It is the light shaped by the intentions of love and compassion guided by wisdom

People need to have compassion for others.

The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe.

One scientist had discussions about love and compassion. Usually, he felt irritation. After our meeting, for some months, anger never come.

Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

I have found that the greatest degree of inner peace comes from cultivating love and compassion.

Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.

I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.