Quotes About Compassion

We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.

You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.

Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

A friend gives hope when life is low, a friend is a place when you have nowhere to go, a friend is honest, a friend is true. A friend is precious a friend is u.

The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others

It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?'

Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

We must make working life more human.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

Be kinder than necessary.

Never resist a generous impulse.

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

If you touch the hearts of people you can get people's minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life.

Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting.

Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.

'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.

No, you can't go getting mad at people because they're shitty. Life will get mad at them, don't worry.