Quotes About Compassion

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Helping others is like helping yourself.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.

Islam is not about "we're better than you". Rather it is about "let me show you something that is better for you

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings.

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.