Quotes on Human Compassion

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

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

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

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

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

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.

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

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

World peace must develop from inner peace.

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.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.