Quotes About Compassion

The true mark of a king is not his power or his wealth, but his compassion for his people.

A man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his ignorance of his fellow man.

We only hate the results of people. But people, Henry, aren't just results. They're a process.

We're sorry for him because a germ he didn't have anything to do with got inside him and twisted him out of shape. Maybe we ought to feel the same way about guys with twisted egos.

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes, he who loves no one has no woes.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

If there is one righteous person the rain falls for his sake.

He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, hatred ceases by love; this is the eternal rule.

If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

What is the point of your getting angry with another? By doing this you are like one who wants to hit another and picks up a burning ember or excrement in his hand and so first burns himself or makes himself stink.

Neither live with a bad man nor be at enmity with him; even as if you take hold of glowing charcoal it will burn you, if you take hold of cold charcoal it will soil you.