Quotes about Compassion

Sweet is the rest and deep the bliss of him who has freed his heart from its lusts and hatreds and dark desires; and he who, without any shadow of bitterness or selfishness resting upon him, and looking out upon the world with boundless compassion and love, can breathe in his inmost heart, the blessing: Peace unto all living things.

He who would be blest, let him scatter blessings.

Only as men succeed in seeing no evil in others will they become free from sin, and sorrow, and suffering.

A man's sympathy extends just so far as his wisdom reaches, and no further; and a man only grows wiser as he grows tenderer and more compassionate. To narrow one's sympathy is to narrow one's heart, and so to darken and embitter one's life.

When a man is rescued from selfish desire his mind is unencumbered, and he is free to work for humanity.

To sympathise with another is to receive his being into our own, to become one with him, for unselfish love indissolubly unites, and he whose sympathy reaches out to and embraces all humankind and all living creatures has realised his identity and oneness with all, and comprehends the universal Love and Law and Wisdom.

Joy cannot remain with the selfish; it is wedded to Love.

Blessed are you when you pray for others. Shame on you when you pray out of selfishness and greed.

One thing I have learned during these past few terrible years is that our grief and sorrow should be shared, not carried alone.

The war has changed you, too, Caroline. Your faith is stronger, your compassion deeper, your love more intense than ever before. It's as if all the qualities I saw in you and fell in love with have been refined and purified.

Don't hate them," Mama said as if reading Ans's mind. "They'll win if we hate them.

When you forgive someone, you make a choice to cancel the debt he owes you.