Compassion Sayings and Quotes
We hope you find these compassion sayings and quotes inspirational. Compassion is something we all need to receive and give. May the words of wisdom in these quotes give you the words that you need.Thomas Merton
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
Henry Ward Beecher
"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."
Meister Eckhart
"The dew of compassion is a tear."
Lord Byron
"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will."
William Cowper
"Compassion is not religious business, it is human business; it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability; it is essential for human survival."
Dalai Lama
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
Dalai Lama
"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."
Pablo Casals
"Compassion is the basis of all morality."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands."
Arthur H. Stainback
"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike."
Horace Mann
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"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
"Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy."
Chogyam Trungpa
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
Henry James
"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas."
John F. Kennedy
"When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves."
Lin Yutang
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace."
Albert Schweitzer
"Compassion is a two way street."
Frank Capra
"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."
Eric Hoffer