Quotes About Compassion

We've been so concerned about being cool, relevant, and fun that we have forgotten to be bread, light, and life to a hungry, dark, and dying world.

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.

To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

To be happy, make other people happy.

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

Live simply so others may simply live.

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

How can anyone be against love?

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

The art of life is loving and listening to one another.

Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being.

I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.