Quotes About Compassion

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others."

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is... just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Happiness is a by-product of helping others.

When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.

As the sergeant said to the recruit: "You might as well be happy, mate - no one cares if you ain't."

True happiness consists in making others happy.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.

A hateful act is the transference to others of the degradation we bear in ourselves.

Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older, as spreading oak gives more shelter.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them, like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.