Compassion Quotes

By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It’s not what they’re not doing or should be doing that’s the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is “out there,” stop yourself. That thought is the […]

There is not one act in the Universe that is not compassionate.

It is not enough to be compassionate, one must act.

He who feels no compassion will become insane.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it; about facing the existential vacuum in all its horrible majesty; and constructing a life of compassion and […]