Quotes About Compassion

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic.

Service is the key to everything in life.

If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier.

Not everyone who's homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who've been knocked down, and it can happen to you, too. Not all of us made bad life choices.

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.

When you think you are the king of the world, you are really stupid in my opinion because in this life every person is important.

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.

The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?

Life is not a gift to be received, but rather, infinite gifts that we can give.

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.

I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

Be nice to people whether you mean it or not. You never know when a kind word can make a difference in another person's day – or maybe even his or her life.

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.

Make gentle the life of this world.

A hand rules heaven as a hand rules pity; hands have no tears to flow.

Transcendent generosity is simply a willingness to be open and do whatever is necessary in the moment, without any philosophical or religious rationale. Seeing someone in need, you're willing to share your wealth, your happiness, or your wisdom, and you're also willing to share in the pain of others. Yet when you give, you need to do so with the awareness that your gift will be both appropriate and helpful.

You'll never find just emptiness or just compassion alone. On this elemental level, they are never divorced. It's a somewhat romantic image—this universe of space and energy as passionate, loving, and selfless all at once.

never give up on anyone. Even if you can't help someone now, don't abandon him or her mentally or close the door to your heart. That is the direct word of the Buddha, our ancient revolutionary friend, and if you forget it, you'll hear it again from the mouth of the rebel buddha you're living with right now.