Quotes About Compassion

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.

Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.

Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.