Compassion Quotes

"Our duty in autism is not to cure but to relieve suffering and to maximize each person’s potential."

- John Elder Robison

"We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity."

- Max de Pree

"You don't need to be a doctor, or a psychologist, or a therapist to say the right words to someone. It can literally be one word, one sentence, and it just...it just clicks."

- Halima Shegow

"The accountant is the unsung hero of today’s business. But how do you remember them? They count the beans and crunch the numbers."

- Mary E. Jones

"Good soccer players need not only great footwork but also a big heart."

- Abby Wambach

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

- Albert Einstein

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

- Albert Einstein

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."

- Audre Lorde

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."

- Coretta Scott King

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Intemperance and intolerance serve no one and hatred guarantees failure."

- Edward Brooke

"None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself."

- Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)

"And the servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk upon the earth easily, and when the ignorant address them [harshly], they say [words of] peace."

- Quran 25:63

"And We have sent you not but as a mercy for all creatures."

- Quran

"Show forgiveness, enjoin what is good, and turn away from the ignorant."

- Quran

"A kind word is a form of charity."

- Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

"The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: 'Make things easy and convenient and don’t make them harsh and difficult. Give cheer and glad tidings and do not create hatred.'"

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: 'There is reward for kindness to every living thing.'"

- Bukhari and Muslim

"The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: 'God is kind and likes kindness in all things.'"

- Rihadh us-Saleheen, Volume 1:633

"God is kind and likes kindness in all things."

- Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)

"Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished."

- Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)

"The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: 'Allah will not be merciful to those who are not merciful to people.'"

- Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)

"The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: '(God) has revealed to me that you should adopt humility so that no one oppresses another.'"

- Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)

"The Prophet (s) said, 'Shall I inform you about the people of Paradise? They comprise every obscure unimportant humble person.'"

- Narrated by Haritha Bin Wahb, in Sahih Al Bukhari, vol 8 hadith 97

"The best answer to anger is silence."

- Marcus Aurelius

"To accept injury without a spirit of savage resentment-to show ourselves merciful toward those who wrong us-being a source of good hope to them-is characteristic of a benevolent and civilized way of life."

- Musonius Rufus

"Love and understanding can go a long way."

- Anonymous

"Be kind to everyone you meet, you never know what battles they may be fighting."

- Anonymous

"Accommodation, not isolation."

- Anonymous

"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."