Quotes About Compassion

Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

No happiness equals the joy of finding a heart that understands.

When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

In fact there are beautiful people in this world doing incredibly selfless acts over and over and over. Dedicating their lives completely for the welfare and happiness of others.

I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Always behold not only your own smile but also the smile of someone else's joy

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness

If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

A smile can heal a thousand wounds.

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.