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Quotes About Compassion

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
~ Jesse Jackson
There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.
~ Nat Hentoff
The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.
~ Millard Fuller
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.
~ Mitch Albom
Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.
~ Pope Francis
Life's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you.
~ Reba McEntire
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
~ Sophocles
First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others.
~ Thubten Yeshe
I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.
~ Wes Moore
Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.
~ Baba Hari Dass
I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.
~ Carlos Castaneda
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.
~ Fred Rogers
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
~ Joan Lunden
Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.
~ Louie Giglio
Happiness is reverence for all life.
~ Goswami Kriyananda
Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
~ Myriam Miedzian
We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.
~ Nelson Mandela
I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.
~ Nick Vujicic
Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
~ Otto von Bismarck
The future belongs to thouse with open minds aand open hearts, who can appreciate beauty in all it's forms.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?
~ Khalil Gibran
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.