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Quotes About Compassion

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
~ Frederick Buechner
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
~ Audrey Hepburn
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
~ Frederick Buechner
It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you arecruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.
~ Cary Grant
If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.
~ Swami Satchidananda
The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
~ Margaret Mitchell
When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
~ Leo Tolstoy
One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
~ James Dobson
Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other
~ Marc Mero
No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.
~ Michael Jackson
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
~ Taylor Swift
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
~ Alice Walker
It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."
~ Gigi Hadid
Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.
~ Stella McCartney
Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.
~ Joanna Macy
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
~ Aristotle
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
~ Maimonides
To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need the two wings of emptiness and compassion. From now on, let us use these two wings to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to come.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
~ Arthur Ashe
No child should die in the dawn of life.
~ Danny Thomas
God's love shines on anyone who understands the limits of endurance, and allows forgiveness
~ Jeff Vandermeer