Compassion Quotes

Thoughts, words, emotions

Allan Lokos

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain

Sharon Salzberg

We need to learn and embrace patience. Patience is a holy key that will unlock the door to a more fulfilling life. Behind the blessed door of patience are found better parents, powerful teachers, great businessmen, wise masters, and a more compassionate world.

Steve Maraboli

When you are at your lowest God speaks the loudest.

Joanne Wilson-Edwards

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

Steve Maraboli

And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

Rachel Hartman

Life has two choices: create or destruct. These choices are the backbone for all, within oneself and outside oneself. Too many ways of thinking are described by too many people that have no idea. If you're attached to your ways then detach, so you can change. Use this detachment in your writing, relationships, and understanding of life. Our future as individuals, as nations, and as mankind can only go one way. It's our choice whether we want the painful path or the peaceful path.

Mark O'Brien

The essence of the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) is about identifying the cause of our suffering

Allan Lokos

I had to clear up my messy life. By letting go of the debris and filth, I have come to a deeper, more soulful beauty and clarity like an oasis in the desert. From that place of clarity, a vision of what I could have, what I could do, who I could be has emerged if I allow my heart to become a place of compassion, acceptance and forgiveness.

Sharon E. Rainey

Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto

Steve Maraboli

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

Orhan Pamuk

True love is born from understanding.

The Buddha

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

Victor Hugo

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

Dalai Lama XIV

Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn't consist of any colours or shades that you know. Trying to describe that colour would be as difficult as trying to belive that there is enough love

Egor Kraft

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

C.S. Lewis

I don't want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined in what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I've touched.

Steve Maraboli

Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self.

Allan Lokos