Quotes About Compassion

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance.

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

You can never go wrong with kindness.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.