Top 100 Be Compassionate Quotes
#1. In life, you have the choice to be compassionate and kind. Be able to laugh at yourself. Give more to others and you will be happy.
Bernard Cenney
#2. If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
#3. Compassion is a sign of inner peace. Kindness is a sign of inner strength. Be kind and be compassionate.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Summing up: Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble. That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless - that's your job, to bless.
Eugene H. Peterson
#5. One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.
Bryant McGill
#6. Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that's better than the one you live in.
Ryan Henry Ward Artist
#7. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement ... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#9. Let me be kind, let me be compassionate, let me be joyful, and let me sing a song of love.
Debasish Mridha
#11. In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'.
Harry Browne
#12. Compassion is a beautiful grace that releases hate and fearful emotions. Through the power of compassion, when put in delicate circumstances with dysfunctional human beings, rather than loathing their behaviour, you can be compassionate to their internal suffering and love them unconditionally.
Christopher Dines
#13. Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble. That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless - that's your job, to bless. You'll be a blessing and also get a blessing.
Eugene H. Peterson
#14. I expect my sister to be compassionate about my heart ache. Gentle. Sympathetic.
What i get is, "you're a goddamn idiot, you know that, Drew?"
I bat you were starting to wonder why we call her The Bitch. Well, here you go.
Emma Chase
#16. Can you be compassionate even to those who have no compassion? If so, there is no finer karma that you can create.
Gary Zukav
#17. However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words, thinking with our hearts, rather than our brains, is a surefire method to hurt those whom we wish to help.
Walter E. Williams
#18. 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.'
Ricky Williams
#19. I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. to be compassionate with myself, even when my will is weak and my body fails me; to give myself freely to those I love, even when it means my heart may be broken; and to live fully and completely while I have the chance - just
Camille Pagan
#21. Today is the best day to be compassionate and kind.
Extend your hand, open your heart with a sympathetic mind.
Be the symbol of love, kindness, and compassion.
Debasish Mridha
#22. You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The practice should open us up, and crack open our hearts again and again.
Judith Hanson Lasater
#23. It is easy to be compassionate with other people's money
John Atherton
#24. If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today ... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone ... we must be compassionate!
Josephine Bakhita
#26. Compassion is not a sometime action; it's an every time passion! You can't be compassionate for less than 7 days in one week ... That's first class hypocrisy!
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. If you are nothing else in this life, be wise, be compassionate, and be strong because those three are everything
Kristen Ashley
#28. Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no birth, no death. It is eternal. To be healthy in consciousness means: first, to be awake; second, to be harmonious; third, to be ecstatic; and fourth, to be compassionate.
Rajneesh
#29. You should be dynamic, and still be soft in the heart.
You should stand against injustice and simultaneously, be compassionate within you, like a saint.
Be a saint and a soldier, together
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#30. When you see the sadness in life, be compassionate. When you see the darkness, become the light and be passionate.
Debasish Mridha
#31. I don't have enough knowledge or wisdom to say anything profound to people all over the world. But maybe a simple "I love you," as corny as it may sound, shows them that I am willing to be compassionate, generous, and peaceful with them.
Richard Brancatisano
#32. It is not important to be a believer, it is not important to be religious, because there are billons around the world already! But it is important to be compassionate, it is important to be ethical, because there are only tens of thousands around the world, obviously not many!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. For at times it happens that some trifle will cause as much suffering to one as a great trial will to another; little things can bring much distress to persons who have sensitive natures. If you are not like them, do not fail to be compassionate.
Teresa Of Avila
#34. Let us not demean or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging.
Thomas S. Monson
#35. Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
Sivananda
#36. You can afford to be compassionate, lax, and courteous if, once in a while, when it is least expected of you, but completely justified, you sue someone, or savage an enemy, just to show that you can walk the walk.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#37. Be courageous enough to forgive yourself; never forget to be compassionate to yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.
Mitch Albom
#39. We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.
Gary Hopkins
#40. I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!
Garth Nix
#41. My ideal world was the early days of Twitter, where everyone was curious about each other and everyone saw it as kind of a window into people's lives where we could be compassionate and curious and empathetic and we could tell each other secrets.
Jon Ronson
#42. We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.
Katherine Heigl
#43. This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.
Geraldo Rivera
#44. Trust life, trust that it will always guide you to the right thing, and be kind, be compassionate.
Frederick Lenz
#45. Until we learn to love each other, try to understand each other, and be compassionate to each other, peace will be an illusion.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.
Katherine Paterson
#47. Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.
Dalai Lama
#48. I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.
Marie Lu
#49. The best thing that I can teach you is to be compassionate and kind to all.
Debasish Mridha
#50. My only advice is to feel with joy, listen with your heart, be kind to all, be compassionate when needed, and love endlessly.
Debasish Mridha
#51. You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.
Mother Angelica
#52. Damyata datta dayadhvam, Be self-controlled, give, be compassionate.
Anonymous
#53. Compassion isn't just about feeling the pain of others; it's about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves, then, in compassion, margins get erased. 'Be compassionate as God is compassionate,' means the dismantling of barriers that exclude.
Gregory J. Boyle
#54. If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.
Ashley Young
#55. Yet I also recognize this: Even if everyone in the world were to accept me and my illness and validate my pain, unless I can abide myself and be compassionate toward my own distress, I will probably always feel alone and neglected by others.
Kiera Van Gelder
#56. Let us help each other.
Let us serve each other.
Let us be kind to each other.
Let us be compassionate to each other.
And let us love the humanity and love each other.
Debasish Mridha
#57. It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.
Dalai Lama
#58. Building a more compassionate society is going to be a bilateral exercise between individuals and the brands that represent their aspirations, their values and their truths. People make brands. If people are compassionate, brands will be compassionate in return.
Monica Lewinsky
#59. Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.
Dennis Prager
#60. Know emptiness, Be compassionate.
Milarepa
#61. We should all focus on trying to be compassionate to others at all times, and be as understanding as possible towards people we know are hurting. We should try to be there to lift each other up.
Avril Lavigne
#62. To be compassionate in this hurting world means it will cost you something.
Wess Stafford
#63. I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
Theodore Bikel
#64. My mom is my best friend and always offers me great perspective and reminds me to be compassionate to myself in moments when I feel low.
Kandyse McClure
#65. With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Keshavan Nair
#66. It is impossible to experience a person's life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.
James Martin
#67. I remember I've never shared tears with someone that longed
for (me) and loved me; I didn't know how to be compassionate.
(The truth, the lies & the love, p. 76)
Chimnese Davids
#68. A saint or monk can afford to be compassionate to all, but a leader or boss cannot always be kind. He may soon be without a job himself if he is unduly compassionate, and chances are, no one would show him any compassion then.
Awdhesh Singh
#69. To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#70. The Merciful is kind to those who are merciful. If you show compassion to your fellow creatures in this world, then those in heaven shall be compassionate toward you.
-The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as narrated by Abd'Allah bin Amr from The Bounty of Allah
Anonymous
#71. How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.
Richard Bach
#73. He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.
Sharon Shinn
#74. When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
Ajahn Brahm
#75. Forgive and be compassionate with another in love, in peace and in faith.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. I thought ... it was easy when I thought it was something to do with the flesh. But what I'm seeing is more than that. It's love, and love isn't a sin. So how can God be so cruel as to give that feeling to two men or two women if it's a sin? I've always believed God to be compassionate. Loving.
Joey W. Hill
#77. In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy-one is happy and, hence, does something. One does not do some things in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way.
Neale Donald Walsch
#78. In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.
Jack Kornfield
#79. Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy another person's confidence through careless words. or actions.
Thomas S. Monson
#80. I have consummated the work to which I pledged myself, using all the abilities that You (God) gave me; I have shown the glory of Your works to men, but if I have pursued my own glory among men while engaged in a work intended for Your glory, be merciful, be compassionate, and forgive.
Johannes Kepler
#81. We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.
Kavita Ramdas
#82. Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.
Rick Warren
#83. If you cannot be compassionate to yourself, you will not be able to be compassionate to others. When we get angry, we have to produce awareness: "I am angry. Anger is in me. I am anger." That is the first thing to do.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#85. The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged.
Rob Liano
#86. It is very important that you be compassionate with yourself. The worse you feel about yourself, the more you'll want to go back to the false safety of the bad relationship you were in. Your attachment system gets activated more when you feel bad about yourself
Amir Levine
#87. I don't want to bring myself down to place where there are hard and fast rules. In general I try to be compassionate, but that is dependent on the moment ultimately.
Margaret Cho
#88. ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION.
Dalai Lama
#89. If God is compassionate, then certainly those who love God should be compassionate as well.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#91. True happiness isn't a disruption-free life, its learning to recognize the ever-present contentment amidst the disruptions of life. Go with the flow(non-resistance), and when you struggle, remember to be compassionate with yourself...
Maximus Freeman
#92. It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act.
Dalai Lama XIV
#93. We all need to be compassionate and know that its is a game for all of us to win, we have to be on the same page and raise our level of awareness of what's possible and the awareness of how powerful we are and how good we need to be to each other.
John Assaraf
#94. I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.
Paul Bloom
#96. If you can teach your child to be compassionate and to be ethical, you will be the greatest teacher!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically, but I had to be compassionate and understand the position of those abusing me. I had to figure it out and then rise above it.
Saul Rubinek
#98. If you're nothing else in this life, be wise, be compassionate and be strong, because those three things are everything.
Kristen Ashley
#99. I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. - Leo Rosten
Joshua Becker
#100. Society needs people who ... know how to be compassionate and honest ... Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.
Alvin Toffler
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