Compassion Quotes

“More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for others' well-being, is the source of happiness.”

“I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of refugees who have suffered. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.”

“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.”

“I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.”

“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.”

“In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.”

“I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.”

“Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child, so with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.”

"The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient."

Francis W. Peabody

"Care more particularly for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease."

William Osler

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."

Mother Teresa

"One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, this is enough for me."

Louis Pasteur

"With malice toward none, with charity for all... to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan."

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."

"Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

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

Albert Einstein

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

Mother Teresa