Quotes About Compassion

If people are suffering, then they must look within themselves. ... Happiness is not something ready-made [Buddha] can give you. It comes from your own actions.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.

Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.

Love, and do what you like.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.

I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Unhurt people are not much good in the world.

In extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.

I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.

More in sorrow than in anger.

When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.

Believe in something larger than yourself.

God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

The soul is awakened through service.

For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, yet so true.

I was a stranger, and ye took me in.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part, that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

The sun shines even on the wicked.