Top Compassion Quotes

It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; and I hope I shall have a chance, I do! Things have got to a pretty pass, if a woman can't give a wa...

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient withou...

Compassion Definition

(n.) Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.

(v. t.) To pity.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Wherever you are, be there with love. Be there with compassion, kindness, and gratitude. Smile and show you care.

Sometimes the Lord must bring the bodylow before Raising the Spirit ever higher.

When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow.

Inner peace doesn't have to be religious, spiritual, or impossible. It simply means you think and act with clarity and compassion--no longer conquered by the storms of the mind.

And the second [thing about the CBS EVENING NEWS that stands out in the mind of Michael J. Fox] was something Katie did later in the interview, as the drugs kicked in and the tremors segued into the j...

We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In our long lives we endeavored to unfold...

I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.

There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings com...

Love is the highest form of meditation.

I speak of the power of trying, because I have fallen and struggled to stand. I speak of generosity because I battle selfishness. I speak of joy because I have known sorrow. I speak of faith because I...

Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at that moment, hearing not simply his words, but him, and when I let him know that I have heard his own...

Ultimately, you are defined by your kindness, compassion, passion, and choice.

We are nothing without compassion for others and for all other beings!

The more attention you put into being more loving, the more loving (and loved) you'll become.

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.