Quotes on Compassion

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

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.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.