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Compassion Quotes |
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Holmes
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
Dalai Lama
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
COnfucius
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
Maya Angelou
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
John Green
A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
Dalai Lama
Do all things with love.
Og Mandino
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.
Albert Einstein
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Hubert H. Humphrey
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Chinua Achebe
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
Dalai Lama
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Plato
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir
One love, one heart, one destiny.
Bob Marley
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Henry Ward Beecher
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
Bill Ayers
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
Tahereh Mafi
We only have what we give.
Isabel Allende
This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me
Emily Dickinson
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
Steve Maraboli
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Horace Mann
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.
Sam Levenson