Quotes about Compassion
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.
— Pema Chodron
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
— Mark Twain
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
— George Eliot
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
— Jesse Jackson
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
— Abraham Lincoln
Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.
— St. John Chrysostom
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
— Pope John Paul II
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
— Charles Dickens
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
— F Scott Fitzgerald
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
— Maya Angelou
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
— Edmund Hillary
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
— Albert Einstein