Quotes About Compassion

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

There are three values: Feel good, be good and do good.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Giving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don't really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving.

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.