Quotes on Compassion

One love, one heart, one destiny.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

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.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.

Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.

Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you enter a room, and people will subconsciously feel it; they'll be prone to show greater kindness in return. That's how love makes things work better in our lives; it realigns the reactions of people and things around us.

Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.

Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.