Compassion Quotes

"I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbours' defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues."

- St. Thérèse de Lisieux

"If you light a lamp for someone it will also brighten your own path"

- Ken Blanchard

"There’s a broken heart on every pew."

- Cecil Randall

"With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world."

- Ray Lewis

"Compassion for yourself is fundamental, since if you don’t care how you feel and want to do something about it, it’s hard to make an effort to become happier and more resilient. Compassion is both soft and muscular. For example, studies show that when people feel compassion, motor planning areas in the brain begin preparing for action."

- Rick Hanson

"The Golden Rule is a two-way street: we should do unto ourselves as we do unto others."

- Rick Hanson

"You get the benefits of both giving and receiving compassion when you offer it to yourself."

- Rick Hanson

"Compassion for self and others may very well be the answer to healing our hurt, hate-filled world."

- Laura Jack

"Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves."

- Pema Chodron

"So many in our nation — too many in our nation — have deeply felt the passage of time these last 20 years. Every birthday your loved one missed. Every holiday. Every time her favorite team won, or his favorite song came on the radio. Every time you’ve tucked in your children or dropped them off at college. You have felt every day, every week, and every year that has passed these 20 years. So, please know your nation sees you, and we stand with you, and we support you."

- Vice President Kamala Harris

"Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them."

- Elvis Presley

"Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be smarter than them."

- Elvis Presley

"The only appropriate stance is unconditional solidarity with all victims. The ethical stance proper is replaced here by the moralizing mathematics of guilt and horror, which misses the key point: the terrifying death of each individual is absolute and incomparable."

- Slavoj Žižek

"I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good."

- Maya Angelou

"Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them."

- Elvis Presley

"Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes."

- Elvis Presley

"To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave."

- Elvis Presley

"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Be kind and compassionate... forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you."

- Ephesians 4:32

"Love thy neighbour."

"Do Not Panic"

"Awaken gently. Let Saturday meet you with kindness, not pressure."

- Unknown

"Saving one animal won't change the world, but it will change the world for that one animal."

"Kindness is difficult to give away. It keeps coming back."

"Kindness is the oil that takes friction out of life."

"Feeling sorry for someone is okay. Helping him is better."

"Be quick to praise, slow to criticize."

"Make compassion your fashion."

"Don't point a finger. Lend a helping hand."