Compassion Quotes

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Compassion Quotes:
"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too." - Frederick Buechner

"I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out." - Nancy Reagan

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." - Leo Buscaglia

"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings." - Joanna Macy

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Compassion Quotes:
"I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the hearts affection, and the truth of the imagination." - John Keats

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." - Benjamin Disraeli

"It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others." - Author Unknown

"If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." - William Penn

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver

Compassion Quotes:
"If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path."
- Buddhist saying

"Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty." - Hugh Prather

"The major block to compassion is the judgment in our minds. Judgment is the mind's primary tool of separation." - Diane Berke

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." - Thomas Jefferson

"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world." - Buddha

Compassion Quotes:
"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging." - Deepak Chopra

"I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end." - Albert Schweitzer

"We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too." - Mairead Maguire

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

Compassion Quotes:
"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."
- Author Unknown

"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged." - Benjamin Franklin

"What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind." - Cleveland Amory

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold." - Zelda Fitzgerald

Compassion Quotes:
"A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. 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.

Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
‘Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another’s tears,
Till in Heaven the deed appears,
Pass it on.
- Henry Burton

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