Compassion Quotes

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.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures, the whole of nature, and its beauty.

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

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.

Hell is not in torture;
Hell is in an empty heart.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.