Compassion Quotes

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.

Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family.

You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.

Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.

Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

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.

The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.

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

Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep.

I don't say it in the Indian fashion that is hypocritically. I say it sincerely because, instead of hatred, I feel great compassion for Mujib Rahiman.

Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these besti*l men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.

A compassionate leader always feel motivated to bring happiness and relieve the suffering of customers, investors, suppliers, employees, government and the communities.

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

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

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

When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good, " they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.

This is my letter to the worldThat never wrote to me

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.

The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.

All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. Is there need for lengthy explanation?

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion.

You must not hate those who do harmful things. The compassionate thing is to do what you can to stop them--for they are harming themselves as well as those who suffer from their actions.

... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!

One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.

Compassion is born from understanding suffering. We all should learn to embrace our own suffering, to listen to it deeply, and to have a deep look into its nature.

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

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

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

Heaven’s Tao is impartial, yet those who follow its compassionate waywill always be nourished

She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.

Ask the poor. They'll tell you who the christians are.

And Sir, it is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion.

The judge speaks in the name of justice, ' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.' (Bishop Myriel)

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.

One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you

Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.