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Quotes About Compassion

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.
~ Richard Paul Evans
It's kindness that helps people cope with a crisis.
~ Nicholas Young
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.
~ Sharon Salzberg
There is nothing more powerful than kindness.
~ Mary Carillo
I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.
~ Publilius Syrus
A kindness is never wasted
~ Aesop
I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!
~ George H. W. Bush
The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?
~ Frederick Lenz
This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, "Afraid of loving," then gently put your hand on your heart to send a message of kindness.
~ Tara Brach
There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
~ Lady Gregory
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.
~ Tara Brach
Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.
~ Mason Cooley
Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.
~ Robert Breault
Kindness has no religion. It is like an open sky.
~ Amit Ray
Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.
~ Maya Angelou
Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
What is my religion? Simple. Kindness.
~ Dalai Lama
Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.
~ Carmen Ejogo
True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given back to me.
~ Wayne Muller