Quotes about Compassion
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
— Thomas Merton
The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
— Wayne Dyer
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
— Carol Burnett
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
— Harold S. Kushner
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
— Confucius
May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
— Thomas Jefferson
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.
— St. Basil
Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
— Bo Burnham
As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
— Pema Chodron
If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.
— Dale Carnegie
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
— Albert Schweitzer
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
— Cicero