Quotes About Compassion

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

Accepting others' life choices is something most people only learn with age.

Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.

Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

Service is life. No service means, spiritually no life.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.

My life mission is to spread peace to the world.

Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

Giving is not a strategy. It's a way of life.

Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.

It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.

On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.