Universal Compassion Quotes

#1. Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared by all that lives. It is not just 'our' pain, but 'the' pain and realizing this awakens our universal compassion

Jack Kornfield

#2. Peace is inner joy, tranquility, nonjudgmental love and universal compassion.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others, to acquire something I might call universal compassion, and also a sense of responsibility, responsibility for the state of my conscience.

Zbigniew Herbert

#4. 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

#5. The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. The Five A's (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing) are simultaneously the fulfillment of our earliest needs, the requirements of adult intimacy and of universal compassion, and the essential qualities of mindfulness practice.

David Richo

#7. Pretend that you are the soul inside everyone you meet.

Tom Bliss

#8. I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.

Eugene V. Debs

#9. An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

Marian Seldes

#10. Adopting an attitude of universal responsibility is essentially a personal matter. The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in our daily life.

Dalai Lama XIV

#11. Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.

Leonard Bernstein

#12. Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever

Dalai Lama

#13. I always believed in love, compassion, and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

Dalai Lama

#14. We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.

Sarah Palin

#15. The impression made on a wise man is that of universal innocence. Poison is not poisonous after all, nor are any wounds fatal. Compassion is a very untenable ground. It must be expeditious. Its pleadings will not bear to be stereotyped.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.

Dalai Lama

#17. Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#18. True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

Dalai Lama

#19. Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence.

Shereen El Feki

#20. Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant.

Madonna Ciccone

#21. In reality, the Us-and-Them or I-and-Thou dichotomies do not exist. There is only one universal We - one human family united by the capacity to feel compassion and to demand equal justice for all.

John Howard Griffin

#22. Anguish is the universal language

Alice Fulton

#23. We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?

K.d. Lang

#24. We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference even if we do not see the positive results of our efforts ... We can never be too generous or too kind.

Marc Bekoff

#25. Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. -Nelson Mandela

Michael Gallegos Borresen

#26. Compassion is a universal language. - Robert Langdon

Dan Brown

#27. She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing, and it was not possible that encouragement from her should be long wanting.

Jane Austen

#28. The Sugar Plum Fairy has the farthest to fall.

Sona Charaipotra

#29. Whereas Hunt recommended universal charity, Keats, feeling himself 'in a Mist', relied on a knowing passivity: 'Men should bear with each other - there lives not the Man who may not be cut up, aye hashed to pieces on his weakest side'.

Nicholas Roe

#30. I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror.

Ashley Graham

#31. I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.

Beau Garrett

#32. I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.

Eric Whitacre

#33. The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.

Guru Nanak

#34. Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion.

Dalai Lama XIV

#35. Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#36. Copenhagen interpretation Niels Bohr's combination of instrumentalism, anthropocentrism and studied ambiguity, used to avoid understanding quantum theory as being about reality.

David Deutsch

#37. He said he was Lord Vile. - Skulduggery

Derek Landy

#38. The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

Dalai Lama

#39. It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky