Quotes About Compassion

If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

Before you judge another, ask yourself if what you don't like in them is actually what you don't like in yourself.

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.

There's no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

You can only be free if I am free.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

An open heart is an open mind.

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

If you see a man who has sinned and you do not pity him, the grace of God will leave you. Whoever curses bad people, and does not pray for them, will never come to know the grace of God.