Kindness & Compassion Quotes

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Kindness is wisdom.

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.