Quotes About Compassion

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.

Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Life is suffering.

Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life.

Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink off to the side of the road -- in the middle of nowhere as they journey into the next phase of their life. I am that kind, young lady that will change a stranger's life forever, and be a burned out memory in the back of their mind... I was that lady with the sad green eyes, the kind smile... The one that offered you a helping hand and good conversation while you ate your food.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded.

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite variety and mystery of it.

You change your life by changing your heart.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.