Compassionate Quotes

#1. As radical as it may seem, it is possible to do things only out of play. I believe that to the degree that we engage moment by moment in the playfulness of enriching life- motivated solely by the desire for its enrichment- to that degree are we being compassionate with ourselves.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#2. In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go.

Julia Gillard

#3. All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

Jimmy Carter

#4. Everyone is longing for love, everyone is suffering from the needs and wants, so be loving, kind, and compassionate to everyone.

Debasish Mridha

#5. We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him.

Frederick William Faber

#6. He doesn't know it, but this touching she does is not only compassionate, but possessive.

Margaret Atwood

#7. We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.

David Whyte

#8. 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

#9. A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

Debbie Ford

#10. A simple smile. That's the start of
opening your heart and being
compassionate to others.

Dalai Lama

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Be compassionate with all people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. When any welfare scheme is being proposed, its political sponsors always dwell on what a generous and compassionate government should pay to Paul; they neglect to mention that this additional money must be seized from Peter.

Henry Hazlitt

#15. As I see it, the aims of education are to enable students to understand the world around them and the talents within them so that they can become fulfilled individuals and active, compassionate citizens.

Ken Robinson

#16. Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.

Brene Brown

#17. 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

#18. I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and intelligence of women are uniquely applicable to other realms as well, such as compassionate service and teaching.

Russell M. Nelson

#19. If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.

Jennifer Nettles

#20. We don't need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

Sharon Salzberg

#21. A compassionate concern for others' well-being is the source of happiness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#22. It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. I can't stomach the thought that we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less viable, less good, less competitive, less compassionate than the one we got.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#24. Radical servanthood challenges us, while attempting persistently to overcome poverty, hunger, illness, and any other form of human misery, to reveal the gentle presence of our compassionate God in the midst of our broken world.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#25. Thanks to former President George W. Bush - remember the compassionate conservative? - I have a good name for the fundamental principle that should guide the Democratic alternative: compassionate deficit reduction.

Christina Romer

#26. It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative,
but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

Robin Williams

#27. The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

Rick Warren

#28. So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.

John Newton

#29. There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.

Gedde Watanabe

#30. Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?

Eve Ensler

#31. The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

Ram Dass

#32. The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Adrienne Rich

#33. 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

#34. I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little discoveries I make in terms of perspective and habitual thought patterns. My memory seems to let me down, so this really helps me.

Richard Brancatisano

#35. You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.

Mango Wodzak

#36. The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.

Robert Dodsley

#37. PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.

Bea Arthur

#38. 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

#39. We should be about our Father's business by pouring His compassionate love into aching and parched souls that have nowhere to turn, no one to love, and no one to care. Let them see Jesus in us. That is a living testimony.

Billy Graham

#40. The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

Cat Stevens

#41. There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.

Heather Wolf

#42. The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

Chogyam Trungpa

#43. Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

Pema Chodron

#44. I persuaded myself that when they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues, they would compassionate me, and overlook my personal deformity. Could they turn from their door one, however monstrous, who solicited their compassion and friendship?

Mary Shelley

#45. The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.

Timothy Keller

#46. The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that.

Gayle King

#47. One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

Nhat Hanh

#48. When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

Jack Kornfield

#49. You're a big sister?' I was shocked. She seemed so good-natured and compassionate.

Natalie Standiford

#50. I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.

Connie Stevens

#51. The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Shunryu Suzuki

#52. Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.

Harold H. Bloomfield

#53. I think on the things - the issues that Pope Francis cares about - not just remaking the Church and in just sort of a more compassionate visage, but really on trying to move real policy.

Joy-Ann Reid

#54. 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

#55. Regarding yourself as a highly rational and compassionate being does not make you rational and compassionate in all circumstances.

Ian McEwan

#56. I'm always impressed by how compassionate the gaming community can be when they have a cause and appreciate that they leverage our platform to raise money for those in need. We continue to encourage giving in support of important causes, including Extra Life 2012.

Emmett Shear

#57. That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.

Gelek Rimpoche

#58. 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

#59. Compassionate leaders know their stakeholders and address their concerns, their hopes, dreams and fears.

Amit Ray

#60. When man become fully compassionate, saddles of the horses will be fully empty!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#61. When a priest says 'Worship God, be just, indulgent, compassionate', he is a very good doctor. When he says, 'Believe me or you will be killed', he is a murderer." - Voltaire

G.K. Noyer

#62. Customer service is just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate type of activity.

Leon Gorman

#63. Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

Ed Bradley

#64. Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it's impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else.

Richard Carlson

#65. Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware of your own human frailty and a need to be nurturing and compassionate and fatherly

Peter Cosgrove

#66. behavior that they understand God's commands and can transform abstract commandments into compassionate personal action. Until now I was neither a religious nor spiritual person.

Bernd Wollschlaeger

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.

James H. Douglas Jr.

#70. I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

Bruce Springsteen

#71. There seems to be no doubt that love and compassion are good, in that they connect us more deeply to others.30 Given this situation, we can see that one could desire to become more loving and compassionate for purely selfish reasons.

Sam Harris

#72. It's the coolest thing - showing young, bright, and creative people that compassion and a compassionate life is the richest way to live. When you live that life, you create progress, productivity, and innovation.

Ian Somerhalder

#73. Loving people are compassionate towards others. However, if that compassion doesn't start at home and doesn't include self-forgiveness, it is incomplete and lopsided.

Annette Vaillancourt

#74. The most extravagant sinners of Jesus's day receive His most compassionate welcome. Grace is a divine vulgarity that stands caution on its head. It refuses to play it safe and lay it up. Grace is recklessly generous, uncomfortably promiscuous.

Preston Sprinkle

#75. 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

#76. Forgive and be compassionate with another in love, in peace and in faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#77. 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

#78. Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#79. Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

Ettore Sottsass

#80. All around the world, there are many great schools, wonderful teachers, and inspiring leaders who are working creatively to provide students with the kinds of personalized, compassionate, and community-oriented education they need.

Ken Robinson

#81. I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

Irvin D. Yalom

#82. Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

Michelle Tea

#83. He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

Sharon Shinn

#84. I would have appreciated the option of joining you and Reece instead of being left with the three bickering hens. I thought you were more compassionate, Levi. -Harrison Oxley

S.L. Morgan

#85. Nanak's encounter of God and God's court was in fact a profound hallucinatory Near-Death Experience caused by drowning that strengthened his pre-conceived notion of a rational, compassionate and unorthodox society.

Abhijit Naskar

#86. If, all our thoughts were edited, good words would come forth, and be received by a compassionate ear.

Colleen Baxter Sullivan

#87. To be always right, be compassionate and kind.

Debasish Mridha

#88. The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#89. If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.

Orson Scott Card

#90. I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

John Mayer

#91. One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Thomas Sowell

#92. We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent, we need not suffer. Pain is a call for attention and the penalty of carelessness. Intelligent and compassionate action is the only remedy.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#93. Liberals don't love big government because they think it's efficient, compassionate, fair or even remotely useful. They support big government because they are guaranteed the support of nearly everyone who works for the government.

Ann Coulter

#94. How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.

Richard Bach

#95. Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo.

Robin Williams

#96. Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Richard Baxter

#97. Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

Keanu Reeves

#98. I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

Joel Osteen

#99. My family is not only attractive - I can say that because I'm paterfamilias - but they're really smart, and they're very, very compassionate.

Tom Brokaw

#100. I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.

Auberon Waugh