Quotes About Compassion

It is better not to love, if loving only means hating others. That is no love. That is hell! If loving your own people means hating everybody else, it is the quintessence of selfishness and brutality, and the effect is that it will make you brutes. Therefore, better die working out your own natural religion than following another's natural religion, however great it may appear to you

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

take Buddha. The central idea [is] sacrifice.

the easiest way to make ourselves happy is to see that others are happy.

If a person who can [give a blow] forbears, there is merit in that.

The sage is not sorry for those that are living nor for those that die" (note 4). [Krishna says:]

We have always heard it preached, "Love one another". What for? That doctrine was peached, but the explanation is here. Why should I love every one? Because they and I are one. Why should I love my brother? Because he and I are one. There is this oneness; this solidarity of the whole universe. From the lowest worm that crawls under our feet to the highest beings that ever lived – all have various bodies, but are the one Soul.

Kindness and love can buy you the whole world; lectures and books and philosophy all stand lower than these.

If the subject is a good one, we shall feel friendly towards it; if the subject of thought is one that is miserable, we must be merciful towards it. If it is good, we must be glad; if it is evil, we must be indifferent.

A man is said to be [illumined] if his will has become firm, if his mind is not disturbed by misery, if he does not desire any happiness, if he is free of all [attachment], of all fear, of all anger

Don't do anything more for your body than you do for John.

Duty is seldom sweet. It is only when love greases its wheels that it runs smoothly; it is a continuous friction otherwise.

Where one sees another, one hears another so long as there are two, there must be fear, and fear is the mother of all [misery].

Where none sees another, where it is all One, there is none to be miserable, none to be unhappy (note 48).

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.

I know a lot of people want to buy puppies, but adopting a dog who needs a home is doing something good.

Do something good for someone every day.

For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

Every day, in every single walk of life, you can do something good, and people will have something bad to say about you. You just get on with it and do your job as best you can.

I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.

I'm very mindful of trying to do something good in the world. When I see injustice in the world, it's very hard for me.

Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'