Top 98 Care Compassion Quotes
#1. If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?
Joan Halifax
#2. The more you care, the stronger you can be.
Jim Rohn
#3. Martin Luther King Jr. called for us to be lovestruck with each other, not colorblind toward each other. To be lovestruck is to care, to have deep compassion, and to be concerned for each and every individual, including the poor and vulnerable.
Michelle Alexander
#4. Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#5. How can you have so much compassion? Isn't it exhausting caring so much?" "Not as exhausting as pretending not to care about anything.
Tonya Burrows
#6. Live with kindness,
care with love,
love with compassion.
Debasish Mridha
#7. When I think of how Jesus loved people, the word "cherish" comes to mind. When we cherish someone, we combine looking and compassion - we notice and care for that person. We don't shut him or her out.
Paul Miller
#8. My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.
Brian Blessed
#9. Knowing the oneness of yourself and the other is true love, true care, true compassion.
Eckhart Tolle
#10. It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.
Paul Bloom
#11. The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.
Allan Lokos
#12. When we truly care, we mix love, compassion, and kindness together in our hearts.
Debasish Mridha
#13. People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them
to feed them or fix them.
Wally Lamb
#14. There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is.
Roxane Gay
#15. If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.
Madeleine L'Engle
#16. The greatest gift you can give is your time. Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time. People need your presence. The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#17. Compassion is essential, but it's not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them.
Vironika Tugaleva
#18. Trauma ruptures and hollows. Compassion mends and fills; love heals.
Na'ama Yehuda
#19. I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care ... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.
Michael Crawford
#20. Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.
Conrad Burns
#21. There are basically two kinds of people: those who have empathy and care about others and those who don't. The ones who don't are creating most of the problems in the world.
Laurence Overmire
#22. You only have one life to live. Make sure it's yours.
Eleanor Brownn
#23. Not caring how you look is but a brief step away from not caring what you do or how you treat people. And surely, if you treat yourself with contempt, you're going to have little thought, care or compassion for anyone else.
Lynda Lee-Potter
#24. Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific
Louise Burfitt-Dons
#25. I do not think I am successful just because I have money. I'm successful because I love who I am and I have no regrets, and I'm successful because I have a great heart and I have compassion and I care and I would be happy with or without money.
Suze Orman
#26. The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.
Frederick Lenz
#27. Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
Vandana Shiva
#28. We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we place compassion and care in the middle of all our dealings with the animal world and honor and respect their lives, our attitudes will change.
Jane Goodall
#29. Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.
Marsha M. Linehan
#30. While pity shows a lack of respect for other human beings, compassion has its roots in a deep respect for others. Pity is an emotion; compassion is a connection. Compassion sees the other as equal. Compassion happens when we care for another person enough to make his or her problems our own.
Matt Litton
#31. Wherever you are, be there with love. Be there with compassion, kindness, and gratitude. Smile and show you care.
Debasish Mridha
#32. We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you.
Anne Lamott
#33. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.
Dalai Lama
#34. The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
Helen Keller
#35. Love & care for one another, gratitude & compassion are the ultimate state of being. This is living on the super-conscious level of life, seeing the soul of one another.
Alice Hocker
#36. 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.
Sam Harris
#37. You become good at what you practise, basketball, anger or compassion, it is up to you!
Kamon
#38. Parental care, satisfaction, friendship, compassion, and grief didn't just suddenly appear with the emergence of modern humans. All began their journey in pre-human beings. Our brain's provenance is inseparable from other species' brains in the long cauldron of living time. And thus, so is our mind.
Carl Safina
#39. Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.
Debasish Mridha
#40. It is not about sexuality that is important to most people who care, it is what we do for our community and our family, our friends and just human compassion for others that matter in the world we live in daily.
Lisa Stone
#41. I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.
Rachel Caine
#42. Research shows that sincere positive feelings--like love, care, gratitude, appreciation, compassion, or joy--smooth out our heart rhythm into a harmonious coherent pattern.
Jed Diamond
#43. Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.
Eboo Patel
#44. Love draws you out of your cocoon of self-absorption to attune to others. Love allows you to really see another person, holistically, with care, concern, and compassion.
Barbara L. Fredrickson
#45. Most of us care about one another. Human beings have considerably more in common with one another than they do differences. One's religion, political persuasion, family, financial and social status, or vocation does not hamper the common thread of personal decency running through most of humankind.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
#46. If we are expected to show a gentle compassion for humanity, shouldn't we all have a wash care label sewn into each & everyone of us?
Josh Stern
#47. I've been able to see all that I've needed, my love: your kindness, your compassion, your tenderness, your love, and your soul. These are all I care about.
Of course you do and I don't expect anything different from you. But next time, I will give you more. You'll see the colours of every season.
Jacquie Underdown
#48. I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.
Ellen DeGeneres
#49. Your outer world mirrors your inner world. How you view your outer world is how you view you, your inner world, the 'you' that needs your care, your attention, your compassion and your love.
Kelly Martin
#50. For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.
Criss Jami
#51. Prioritise self-care & incorporate a MINIMUM of 60 mins 'ME TIME' into your daily routine.
YES THERE ARE enough hours in the day.
NO EXCUSES.
Miya Yamanouchi
#52. The study of love is an emerging field. Perhaps the leaders in the field are a group called The Institute of HeartMath who have found that we have many physiological, psychological, and social benefits when we're living with greater love, care, and compassion.
Marci Shimoff
#53. First and foremost, if we maintain healthy emotional boundaries and direct love and kindness inwards, we are taking care of ourselves and secondly we are giving a subliminal message to others about how we wish to be treated. People tend to subconsciously treat us how we treat ourselves.
Christopher Dines
#54. Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,
With your harmonious choir
Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,
That my old care may cease ...
William Butler Yeats
#55. Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
Vita Sackville-West
#56. I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
#57. People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, and some do not care at all. There are cultural differences.
Paul Bloom
#58. Taking good care of yourself means the people in your life receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
Lucille Zimmerman
#59. See, don't just look. Your partner is so much more than their appearance. It's how kind their heart is, how lovely they smile, how much they care and have compassion, how generous and giving they are which becomes much more attractive.
Suzan Battah
#60. Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.
Sharon Salzberg
#61. My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.
Rosanne Cash
#62. Take care of your people is one of the principle lessons of military leadership. If we take care of our people on deployment, why should that change when we come home?
Eric Greitens
#63. Through Compassion and Care we are compelled to random acts of kindness and demonstrations of love.
Jean Hamilton-Fford
#64. In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives.
Shannon L. Alder
#65. If you truly want LOVE to enter your Heart, you HAVE to give a DAMN about what's going on around you!!
AainaA-Ridtz
#66. Happiness will bloom
With fragrance and beauty
If you plant the seeds of love
With a deep driving desire
in the garden of hope
And nurture with tenderness,
Compassion, and care;
If you are always eager to share.
Debasish Mridha
#67. Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be precise requires care, time, and attention to the person, place, or process being described.
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
#68. We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.
Todd Akin
#69. John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.
Paul C. Nagel
#70. Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.
Jerzy Kosinski
#71. Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.
Dalai Lama
#72. I don't care for the colour of your skin, I care for the size of your heart behind it.
Nikki Rowe
#73. We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
Sharon Salzberg
#74. As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.
Dalai Lama
#75. Love is primal. It is comprised of compassion, care, security, and a leap of faith.
Jay Allison
#76. The main purpose of life is to love, is to care, is to share, is to serve, and is to grow passion for compassion.
Debasish Mridha
#77. If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.
Tarthang Tulku
#78. Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone.
John Bruna
#79. The purpose of religion is to enhance love, compassion, kindness, and care.
It teaches us forgiveness, humility, tolerance, patience, and to share.
Debasish Mridha
#80. What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.
Criss Jami
#81. For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land more than me. He needed constant cultivation, or the fruit turned wild.
Bruce-Novoa
#82. Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.
Bryce Courtenay
#83. Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?
Nikki Rowe
#84. The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father
Denzel Washington
#85. Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#86. Care for each person you meet as if you secretly know they are going to die tomorrow but they don't know it yet. They need your compassion. Or, if that is too morbid, pretend you are their mother. My baby!
Anonymous
#87. Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
Anne Lamott
#88. Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?
Ronald J. Sider
#89. I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something like compassion, on getting people to care more for others without putting ourselves in their shoes.
Paul Bloom
#90. All my life,
Following Care along the dusty road,
Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed ...
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#91. Instead of showing compassion, or good sense, or care, many people regarded the clinic with hate and disgust. Every age thought they were so enlightened, and every age was stumbling around in much the same darkness of ignorance and fear.
Cassandra Clare
#92. Loving life is a two-way street ... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.
George Shinn
#93. Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
Gary Hopkins
#94. Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.
Joseph Conrad
#95. Strong families serve society by bringing forth healthy children and maturing young adults, by being a rich source of a compassion for sick members, of support for others in time of crisis and of care for the elderly and the dying.
Vincent Nichols
#96. Peace is not the absence of violence or war; it is the presence of kindness, compassion, love, and care.
Debasish Mridha
#97. Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
#98. With our close friends, family members, and lovers, we hope to create a special world, one in which we can expect to be treated fairly, with care, tenderness, and compassion.
Sharon Salzberg