Quotes About Compassion

Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

We wanted to touch them with our action.

What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful?

We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

What if there is no such thing as other people's wrongness..... ?

Unkind acts are like giving a piece of one's self away for cheap.

It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

There is no age barrier when it comes to Christlike service.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart.

We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people

Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

It comes with age. I can't watch movies that are inhumane.