Top compassion Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of compassion quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Julian of Norwich
Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.
- Julian of Norwich
Collection: Compassion
Image of Bernie Siegel
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.
- Bernie Siegel
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Image of Aberjhani
Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
- Aberjhani
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Image of Aberjhani
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
- Aberjhani
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Image of Kathi Appelt
Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.
- Kathi Appelt
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Image of Liam Neeson
Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.
- Liam Neeson
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Image of Luc Besson
You know, money will never save anyone. Compassion can save someone, love can save someone, money will never save anyone. And as long as the entire society will put money first... Money should be like third or fourth or fifth, I'm not saying lets get rid of money, but how can we put money as number one? As the only value, like if you are rich, you're famous you go VIP, why? It's just insane, the way we've transformed the society.
- Luc Besson
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Image of Alice Walker
Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
- Alice Walker
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Image of Gary L. Francione
All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property
- Gary L. Francione
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Image of James A. Forbes
Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and the rigorous pursuit of peace in the midst of competing interests and faith claims.
- James A. Forbes
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Image of Bernie Glassman
It's very rare to be in a state where there's nothing in, where you have no attachment to any idea or concept about yourself. In that state you've immediately raised the mind of compassion, because if nothing is in, everything is in, and you are now free to experience yourself as the world.
- Bernie Glassman
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Image of Bernie Glassman
Each of is an arm of Kannon, enabling Kannon to do her work. Like her, we're also overwhelmed, but when we reallize that the millions of pieces are all operating as one, then there's no problem. The reason we get overwhelmed is that we're attached to a certain result or taht we want to achieve a certain result or that we to achieve a certain goal. If we weren't attached we wouldn't be overwhelmed. It's endless. And we just take one step after the next
- Bernie Glassman
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Image of Ernest Renan
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.
- Ernest Renan
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Image of Mencius
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
- Mencius
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Image of Rachel Naomi Remen
Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In embracing such 'frontier' values, we may become intolerant of human wholeness, contemptuous of anything in ourselves, and in others, that has needs or is capable of suffering. The denial of a vulnerability is the ultimate barrier to compassion.
- Rachel Naomi Remen
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Image of Rachel Naomi Remen
When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
- Rachel Naomi Remen
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Image of Naoki Higashida
True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect.
- Naoki Higashida
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Image of Tara Brach
Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
- Tara Brach
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Image of Annie Besant
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.
- Annie Besant
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Image of Tom Rath
Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope.
- Tom Rath
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Image of Vera Nazarian
You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself. Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self. Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy. Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself. Otherwise, cede your gavel.
- Vera Nazarian
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Image of Dennis Prager
Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil
- Dennis Prager
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Image of Philip Yancey
I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
- Philip Yancey
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Image of Sathya Sai Baba
Look at the world with the vision of peace, love, and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful.
- Sathya Sai Baba
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Image of Tacitus
Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
- Tacitus
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Image of Sharon Salzberg
Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
- Sharon Salzberg
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Image of Stephen Batchelor
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.
- Stephen Batchelor
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Image of Mary Caroline Richards
Compassion is an alternate perception
- Mary Caroline Richards
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Image of Rudolf Steiner
Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.
- Rudolf Steiner
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Image of Bethany Hamilton
Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.
- Bethany Hamilton
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Image of Said Nursi
Life is a manifestation of unity.
- Said Nursi
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Image of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Live, and be happy, and make others so.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Image of Ian Somerhalder
We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.
- Ian Somerhalder
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Image of Rowan Williams
Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies.
- Rowan Williams
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Image of Kyra Sedgwick
Compassion is very important, especially right now in America. We all need to strive as human beings to understand each other and ourselves better.
- Kyra Sedgwick
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Image of Betty Smith
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
- Betty Smith
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Image of Tracee Ellis Ross
I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
- Tracee Ellis Ross
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Image of Alex Steffen
For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.
- Alex Steffen
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Image of Ben Parr
Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.
- Ben Parr
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Image of Brad Warner
Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.
- Brad Warner
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Image of Orhan Pamuk
The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.
- Orhan Pamuk
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Image of Lori Lansens
I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.
- Lori Lansens
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Image of David R. Brower
We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
- David R. Brower
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Image of Stephen Schwartz
Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.
- Stephen Schwartz
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Image of Cheri Huber
You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.
- Cheri Huber
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Image of Rachel Scott
I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same.
- Rachel Scott
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Image of Joyce Rupp
I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.
- Joyce Rupp
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Image of Oprah Winfrey
Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.
- Oprah Winfrey
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Image of William Blum
Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.
- William Blum
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Image of Rachel Vincent
...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.
- Rachel Vincent
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