Compassion Quotes

"Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances ... which make philanthropy necessary."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience."

- Glennon Doyle Melton

"When her pain is fresh and new, let her have it. Don’t try to take it away. Forgive yourself for not having that power. Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They’re sacred. they are part of each person’s journey. All we can do is offer relief from this fear: I am all alone. That’s the one fear you can alleviate."

- Glennon Doyle Melton

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years."

- Bertrand Russell

"The disease might hide the person underneath, but there's still a person in there who needs your love and attention."

- Jamie Calandriello

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."

- Iain S. Thomas

"During my college life, I learnt that [Medicine is not a career], but a love for humanity"

- Kate Ackert

"Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about – like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow."

- Philip Yancey

"It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom."

- Alice Walker

"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away."

- Arthur Helps

"When you're nice, you're not bullying people. But when you're kind, you stand up against the bully."

- Daniel Lubetzky

"When you have the choice between being right and being kind, just choose kind."

- Wayne Dyer

"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."

- Amelia Earhart

"Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."

- Steve Maraboli

"You can always—always—give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!"

- Anne Frank

"May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in."

- Mother Teresa

"If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway."

- Mother Teresa

"Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."

- Diana, Princess of Wales

"I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

- Mother Teresa

"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."

- Mother Teresa

"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."

- Mother Teresa

"I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?"

- Mother Teresa

"I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?"

- Mother Teresa

"You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I'll guarantee you'll win."

- Patch Adams

"Loneliness is the most terrible form of poverty."

- Mother Teresa

"One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment."

- Mother Teresa