Quotes About Compassion

When somebody elses happiness makes you happy, it means you are a person with a big heart.

If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.

As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.

One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

Begrudging others leads to disharmony. Without harmony there can be no happiness. Therefore, let go of grudges and restore harmony. In a harmonious world, happiness is possible.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

We smile, because this is how we save the world.

The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.