Compassion Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old compassion quotes, compassion sayings, and compassion proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
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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.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
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Compassion is the basis of all morality
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle
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All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
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Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
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Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
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Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more humane world.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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No matter who we are, no matter how successful, no matter what our situation, compassion is something we all need to receive and give.
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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter
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It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers.
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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.
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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.
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I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
