Compassion Quotes

"Remember, what is given from the heart reaches the heart."

- Patricia C. McKissack

"We who have means and a voice must use them to help those who have neither."

- Jennifer Donnelly

"The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are."

- Amy Poehler

"Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you."

- Charles M. Schulz

"The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women."

- Stephen Gaskin

"Real living is living for others."

- Bruce Lee

"It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it."

- Bruce Lee

"We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace."

- Pope Francis

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

- Maya Angelou

"I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster."

- Sasha Grey

"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."

- John Millington Synge

"Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply."

- Joyce Meyer

"I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It’s important not to focus on yourself too much."

- Nicole Kidman

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet."

- Rhonda Byrne

"Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it."

- James Thomas Fields

"I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world."

- Sydney Leroux

"I am wishing you all a speedy recovery from all niggles, pain, injuries, and surgeries!"

- Camille

"“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”"

- Mother Teresa

"“Always show more kindness than seems necessary because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.”"

- Colin Powell

"If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another – not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity – you are going to find the truth."

- Erin Brockovich

"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."

- Audre Lorde

"If we’re not protecting our women and we’re not protecting our girls and we’re not protecting the most vulnerable people in this society, who are we as a country?"

- Deb Haaland

"I urge everyone here and everyone who hears my voice to join me in telling the stories that aren’t told. To honor the girls, the women of color, who are murdered at disproportionate rates in this nation. I urge each of you to help write the narrative for this world and understand, so that these girls and women are never forgotten."

- Naomi Wadler

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

- Ian Maclaren

"On the Great and Holy Friday we commemorate the holy, saving and awesome sufferings of our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ: the spitting, the striking, the scourging, the cursing, the mockery; the crown of thorns, the purple cloak, the rod, the sponge, the vinegar and gall, the nails, the spear; and above all the cross and the death, which He voluntarily endured for us. Also we commemorate the saving confession of the grateful thief who was crucified with Him."

- Rev. Alkiviadis Calivas

"Good Friday: day of the cross, day of suffering, day of hope, day of abandonment, day of victory, day of mourning, day of joy, day of endings, day of beginnings. . . . I closed my eyes and could see his sacred body. . . . I saw the immense suffering of humanity during the centuries: people killing each other; people dying from starvation and epidemics; people driven from their homes; people sleeping on the streets of large cities; people clinging to each other in desperation; people flagellated, tortured, burned and mutilated; people alone in locked flats, in prison dungeons, in labor camps; people craving a gentle word, a friendly letter, a consoling embrace, people . . . all crying out with an anguished voice, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken us?’. . . with my minds’ eye I saw large crowds of isolate, agonizing individuals walking away from the cross together, bound by the love they had seen with their own eyes and touched with their own lips. The cross of horror became the cross of hope, the tortured body became the body that gives new life; the gaping wound became the source of forgiveness, healing and reconciliation."

- Henri Nouwen

"Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth."

- 1 John 3:18

"Postpartum is the most neglected period of a woman's life. Check on your postpartum friends."

"You’ll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior."