Compassion Quotes
Quotes about compassion and caring for others. This hand-picked collection brings together 26 of the finest compassion quotes ever written — from Mother Teresa, Dalai Lama, Albert Schweitzer and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Love is the absence of judgment.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
We need to be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world — the company of those who have known suffering.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal.
There is no greater sickness in the world today than the lack of love.
Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not.
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate.
A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.
Grief can be the garden of compassion.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.