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Quotes About Compassion

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.
~ John Trudell
I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.
~ Thomas Sankara
Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun
~ Hafez
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
~ Pope John Paul II
All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
~ Sigmund Freud
You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.
~ Cicely Saunders
NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!
~ Gerard Way
Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.
~ Cesar Chavez
Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through.
~ Sam Cawthorn
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
~ Charles Dickens
You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.
~ Shams Tabrizi
Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
~ Vincent de Paul
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.
~ Igor Sikorsky
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
~ Khalil Gibran
Nothing in the Christian life is more important than forgiveness-our forgiveness of others and God's forgiveness of us.
~ John F. MacArthur
Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.
~ River Phoenix
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
~ Irena Sendler
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.
~ Martin Buber
When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.
~ Gautama Buddha
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
~ Dian Fossey
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
~ Zoroaster