Compassion Quotes

"Compassion is the basis of morality."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

- Dalai Lama

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

- Plato

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Albert Einstein

"A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."

- Steve Maraboli

"Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things."

- Thomas Merton

"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals."

- Pema Chödrön

"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."

- Maya Angelou

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

- Anne Frank

"The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Kindness and compassion towards all living things is the mark of a civilized society."

- Cesar Chavez

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."

- Dalai Lama

"Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer."

- Rachael Joy Scott

"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."

- John Holmes

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."

- John Green