Quotes About Compassion

Practice random acts of kindness, the world needs it more than you think

Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: "How may I be kind to you?"

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.

And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.

We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

If you can't go where people are happier, try to make people happier where you are.

Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.