Compassion Quotes
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ~Plato
- “One love, one heart, one destiny.” ~Bob Marley
- “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~Mother Teresa
- “No one has ever become poor by giving.” ~Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank
- “It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
- “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” ~Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
- “What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. ” ~Chris Abani
- “You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.” ~Charles Dickens
- “We were compatible beyond compare” ~Obengbia Leyony
- “We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.” ~Sharon Salzberg
- “Anguish is the universal language” ~Alice Fulton
- “The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.” ~Allan Lokos
- “How good life is when one does something good and just!” ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “…It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.” ~Doreen Orion
- “Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.” ~Sharon Salzberg