Top 100 Living Compassion Quotes
#1. We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
#2. I am a vegan because I don't want to support the cruel industry that goes on on farms everyday.
Zoe Rosenberg
#3. [T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)
Karen Armstrong
#4. Our God created us to find fulfillment and joy in doing His work, in serving others, in living with the compassion of Jesus in this world.
Darlene Zschech
#5. You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful.
Amit Ray
#6. What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.
Steve Goodier
#7. caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#8. ... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!
Charles Dickens
#9. When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Gautama Buddha
#10. The deletion of logic is through....
Love
Acceptance
Forgiveness
Compassion
Understanding
Faith in the unknown
Present Moment Living
Conscious Breathing
Matthew Donnelly
#11. I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.
Dorianne Laux
#12. Anybody Can Hate. Hate is Easy ... Living Side by Side with Compassion, Tolerance and Respect Takes Real Courage.
Jeffrey A. White
#13. He was a living example of the truth that a man may be large-minded and yet strong; that he may hate error, yet love the erring - stand like a rock against heresy, yet be full of compassion for heretics.
F.A. Forbes
#14. Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.
Dalai Lama
#15. Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.
Cesar Chavez
#16. His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
Victor Hugo
#17. Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.
Brian Blessed
#19. Christians should be well versed in what the Bible has to say about human sexuality and economic issues as well as effective methods of compassion for helping the poor and most vulnerable if we hope to gain a hearing with those living in our urban areas.
Christopher W. Brooks
#20. What is life if not laughter and love, caring and compassion, fresh bread and crisp radishes?
James Kavanaugh
#21. Every person is a living treasure box. Listening holds the key.
Mollie Marti
#22. The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.
Virchand Gandhi
#23. Before I met you, my life ran on sheer amusement.
After I met you, my life ran on sheer compassion.
Heenashree Khandelwal
#24. Money and material things may well sustain you physically. But it is only living life from/with love & compassion - and the hearts and lives that you touch - that will truly nourish you emotionally and in spirit.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#25. 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
#26. If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings
this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.
Gautama Buddha
#27. Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature
Albert Einstein
#28. The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life's journey. Nothing equals love.
Sargent Shriver
#29. If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion.
Charles R. Swindoll
#30. 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
#31. Sometimes a bit of compassion and decency is reason enough to do something out of the ordinary.
Ariel Lawhon
#32. There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.
David Cameron
#33. Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer
#34. Compassion for every living blade of grass, and yet walls thirty feet high, six feet thick from within which you meditate on the unity and beauty of all things. Son, does this make my point?
Sunil Yapa
#35. Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
St. Jerome
#36. If you can only do one thing today, choose to help someone in need. There are many who are less fortunate. Take some time to lend a helping hand. You will be surprised by how much you will uplift their spirit.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#37. For all the types of pain that can lead to suffering there is a solution. Through opening our hearts with compassion to the pain that life brings, we can truly cure our pain and avoid our suffering. Then we can walk in the valley of love and experience the vast space within our heart.
Sebastian Pole
#38. Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#39. Contemplating this suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.
Dalai Lama XIV
#40. Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life ...
Elizabeth Goudge
#41. We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
Aberjhani
#42. My touchstone for following a line of wisdom is; 'living the philosophy should bring freedom to the individual, and love, wisdom and compassion to society, to our relationships'.
Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
#43. Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
#44. God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.
Henri Nouwen
#45. If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
Albert Schweitzer
#46. Hope is like compassion to me. It's like possibility and living in possibility.
Morley
#47. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
#48. Buddhism is more a philosophy for living rather than a religion or dogma - it's about being awake, free from illusions and fear, so that compassion and loving kindness permeates all of our relationships.
Charlotte Kasl
#49. The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#50. But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman - you are as an animal - 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus.
Truman Capote
#51. 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
#52. I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in "the crowded street of life." That in itself need not be dangerous unless you have the open razors of personal vanity in your pants pocket. The passers-by don't hurt you, but if you go around like that, they make you hurt yourself.
Zora Neale Hurston
#53. Yes, karma propels us into all kinds of unexpected situations," His Holiness said. "This is another reason we should behave with love and compassion toward all living beings. We never know in what circumstances we will meet up with them again. Sometimes even in this same lifetime.
David Michie
#54. Do not allow another person to set you back. Continue moving forward not backwards. When someone pulls you back, be like the arrow to a bow and spring forth greater than ever. And, what they thought would be your disadvantage, you turn it into your advantage.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#55. As long as we practice with a vow to help others, we are the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, and we become the leading figure in the Heart Sutra, whether we are a layperson or are ordained, whether whether celibate or married, living in the monastery or living in secular society.
Dosung Yoo
#56. I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.
John Crowley
#57. One will develop ruchi (liking) for chanting of the holy names, when one has compassion for each and every living being.
Lokanatha Swami
#58. O Nobly Born, now there is born in you exceeding compassion for all those living creatures who have forgotten their true nature. - Mahamudra text of Tibetan yogi Longchenpa
Jack Kornfield
#59. For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.
Gautama Buddha
#60. Being gay has taught me tolerance, compassion and humility. It has shown me limitless possibilities of living. It has given me people whose passion and kindness and sensitivity have provided a constant source of strength. It has brought me into the family of man, Mama, and I like it here.
Armistead Maupin
#62. Through mindfully practising love and compassion we are able to heal our hearts and minds from our hurt and suffering, thus bringing harmony into this world. The more we are open to love, the easier it is to share kindness with all living creatures.
Christopher Dines
#63. Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.
Debbie Ford
#64. Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.
Deepak Chopra
#65. We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#66. Personal dignity begins by accepting responsibility for our actions, acting humbly, and extending compassion to other people. Personal humility requires choosing living with quietness of the heart over living in the depths of animosity, despair, and discord.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#67. Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.
Marc Bekoff
#68. How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?
Will Tuttle
#69. Living in society, we must share the suffering of our fellow citizens and practice compassion and tolerance not only toward our loved ones but also toward our enemies.
Dalai Lama XIV
#70. Your genuine happiness does not come from other people, activities or things, it comes from living a meaningful life - a life that is in alignment with your values and is beneficial.
John Bruna
#71. Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.
Amit Ray
#72. My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.
Justin Timberlake
#73. If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#74. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.
Kemi Sogunle
#75. 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
Leo Tolstoy
#76. Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.
Jane Goodall
#77. The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Thomas Merton
#78. Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.
Cesar Chavez
#79. Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.
Lemony Snicket
#80. Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ours is the power to prevent it?
- Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic)
John Byrne
#81. The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
Steven Pinker
#82. Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.
Shannon L. Alder
#83. 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
#84. How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
George Eliot
#85. The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.
Joseph Campbell
#86. In Islam, all living things have souls. We are made pure by the fire of the lord compassion.
John Speed
#87. [I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
Adlai Stevenson I
#88. As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
Pythagoras
#90. The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.
Eknath Easwaran
#91. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.
Nhat Hanh
#92. Doing evil to another person doesn't prove your love and loyalty to another person; it proves your significant other wants you to walk away from the light because they are lonely living in the dark.
Shannon L. Alder
#93. Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
#94. We can bring heaven on the earth when we have compassion for all living beings.
Amit Ray
#95. Every living thing is sacred to me. Compassion and love can heal this world, which is set on fire of violence and hatred. I will teach the world about compassion, and end the suffering by halting these floods of sorrow. Said Prince Siddhartha and began his journey of saving the man kind." ,
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#97. ...the act of kindness is an unselfish act, it is medicine for your soul...
Travis Culliton
#98. Real religion is not about being a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim. Real religion is about loving God, & dedicating ones life to be an instrument of Gods compassion, kindness towards other living beings.
Radhanath Swami
#99. Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.
Gautama Buddha
#100. 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
