Compassion Quotes

"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity."

- Pema Chödrön

"Compassion is all-inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories."

- Amit Ray

"Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers."

- Susan Sontag

"We have to make mistakes; it's how we learn compassion for others."

- Curtis Sittenfeld

"If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void."

- Karen Armstrong

"The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley."

- Amit Ray

"Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world."

- Steve Maraboli

"I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves."

- Steve Maraboli

"Compassion is not condescending kindness. It is a passionate engagement with everything around you."

- Sadhguru

"Compassion comes with connectivity and connectivity can happen when you are free from within."

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness."

- Dalai Lama

"Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked."

- Patanjali

"Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Rachael Joy Scott

"The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival."

- Dalai Lama

"Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends"

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."

- Keshavan Nair

"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness."

- Ram Dass

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos"

- Milan Kundera

"Compassion is not a virtue—it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have—it’s something we choose to practice."

- Brené Brown

"Compassion isn’t some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we’re trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don’t even want to look at."

- Pema Chödrön

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peached and joy finally for you too."

- Frederick Buechner

"Give Compassion: Every day the average person fights epic battles never told just to survive."

- Ken Poirot

"We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"and compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion."

- Dalai Lama

"Until you have real compassion, you cannot recognize love."

- Bob Thurman

"We can’t heal the world today but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, an act of kindness."

- Mary Davis

"There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender."

- Heather Wolf

"Compassion is a passion with a heart."

"Compassion is at the heart of every little thing we do. It is the dearest quality we possess. Yet all too often it can be cast aside with consequences too tragic to speak of. To lose our compassion, we lose what it is to be human."