Quotes About Compassion

The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

The world exists for the sake of kindness.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!