Compassion Quotes

"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals."

Pema Chödrön

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop

"The wealth of compassion is the greatest wealth; the wealth of riches is found even among the base."

Thiruvalluvar

"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."

José N. Harris

"The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified."

"Feel for the miserable and look up for help – it shall come."

"Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Albert Einstein

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization."

Samuel Johnson

"The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."

Pearl S. Buck

"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."

Albert Schweitzer

"Nobody needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give."

Dale Carnegie

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."

William Osler

"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."

Charles Darwin

"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"

Jeremy Bentham

"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."

"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

Francis of Assisi

"To my mind, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."

"To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."

Albert Schweitzer

"Compassion is the root of religion; pride is the root of sin."

Tulsidas

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."