Quotes About Compassion

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

Tremendous happiness and peace of mind are the results of loving service to others. Nobody can live fully and happily who lives only unto himself or herself.

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

One of Buddhism's main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.