We should always learn to look out for people out there, and take an interest in the plight and struggles of others. These quotes will serve as a source of inspiration to help you become a better person.
The similarity between kindness and compassion cannot be overemphasized, but then, they mean different things. Merriam-Webster defines kindness as “the quality or state of being kind” or “a kind deed.” On the other hand, compassion is a “sympathetic consciousness of other’s distress together with a desire to alleviate it.”
Many people may feel that it is hard to help others or alleviate their troubles while also managing their own hectic life.
But after engaging in, it’s crucial to turn toward others and concentrate on them.
We may appear to be each living in our own little worlds, but ultimately, we are all interconnected and are greatly influenced by the decisions made by others.
When we respond compassionately and show concern for the suffering and problems of others, we frequently help both them and ourselves. Someone else’s day can be improved by a small act of kindness.
1. “A simple way to access compassion is to see with the eye of your heart,” Carrigan wrote in What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness. -Catherine Carrigan
2. “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal,” Maraboli wrote in Life, the Truth, and Being Free. –Steve Maraboli
3. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.” “Without them, humanity cannot survive,” the Dalai Lama wrote in The Art of Happiness. –Dalai Lama XIV
4. “A stranger’s compassion can make a world of difference,” Oprah Winfrey wrote in “The Life You Want” Planner. -Oprah Winfrey
5. “More smiling, less worrying.” More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate, “Bennett wrote in The Light in the Heart. –Roy T. Bennett
6. “I have no idea what’s awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends.” For the moment, I know this: There are sick people and they need curing, “Camus wrote in The Plague. -Albert Camus
7. “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. Schopenhauer wrote in On the Basis of Morality, “Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
8. “We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead, “Bennett wrote in his book, The Light in the Heart. -Roy T. Bennett
9. “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. “Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity,” Chödrön wrote in “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times.” – Pema Chödrön
10. Jealousy, greed, fear. We’re all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn’t matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You’d jump in to save him. –
11. “Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk,” Goodrich wrote in Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year. -Richelle E. Goodrich
12. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.” If you want to be happy, practice compassion, “the Dalai Lama wrote in The Art of Happiness. -Dalai Lama XIV
13. “If it is not tempered by compassion and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void,” Armstrong wrote in Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life. -Karen Armstrong
14. “Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile.” We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world, “Maraboli wrote in Life, the Truth, and Being Free. -Steve Maraboli
15. Mother Teresa wrote: “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.” in A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations. –
16. “It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needs it, it can last a lifetime,” Maraboli wrote in Life, the Truth, and Being Free. – Steve Maraboli
17. Sontag wrote, “Compassion is an unstable emotion.” It needs to be translated into action, or it withers, “in Regarding the Pain of Others.” -Susan Sontag
18. Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action more than a word that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything. –Ziggy Marley
19. “We have to make mistakes; it’s how we learn compassion for others,” Sittenfeld wrote in American Wife. -Curtis Sittenfeld
20. Ray wrote: “Compassion is all-inclusive. “Compassion knows no boundaries.” “In Nonviolence: The Transforming Power, compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.” -Amit Ray
21. In Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself Neff wrote: “Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means to suffer with, ‘which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering. “The emotion of compassion springs from the recognition that the human experience is imperfect. -Kristin Neff
22. “The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley,” Ray wrote in Nonviolence: The Transforming Power. -Amit Ray
23. “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete,” Kornfield wrote in Buddha’s Little Instruction Book. -Jack Kornfield
24. “No one has ever become poor by giving,” Frank wrote in The Diary of Anne Frank. –Anne Frank
25. If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seeds of compassion and loving kindness can be watered every day, then you will become a more loving person. -Thich Nhat Hanh
26. “We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love,” Goodall wrote in Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating. -Jane Goodall
27. “Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory,” Aberjhani wrote in The River of Winged Dreams. -Aberjhani
28. “When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich,” Ali wrote in The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life’s Journey.- Muhammad Ali
29. Ray wrote “Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world,” in Nonviolence: The Transforming Power. -Amit Ray
30. “Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights into the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you” in Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem. -Suzy Kassem
31. If we start treating addiction as a public health issue, with more compassion, and without the criminal element, our society will be better off and violence and public safety will improve as a result. We’ll also be taking a big step in taking down the prison-industrial complex that disproportionately harms communities of color. -John Fetterman
32. In Up from Slavery, Washington wrote, “Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” –Booker T. Washington
33. “The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance,” Leloup wrote in Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity. -Jean-Yves Leloup
34. “I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another’s suffering,” Weil wrote in Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life. – Zoe Weil
35. “Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it,” Madison wrote in Black and White. -Tiffany Madison
36. One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism, to begin with. -Marianne Williamson
37. Ourselves and, most importantly, having compassion for ourselves and how we’re feeling. So, give yourself permission to fall down, but don’t give yourself permission to stay there,” Lightstar wrote in The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment. -Saskia Lightstar
38. “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,” the Dalai Lama wrote in The Compassionate Life.- Dalai Lama XIV
39. “Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself,” Lokos wrote in Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living. -Allan Lokos
40. Hannah wrote, “The measure of a society is its compassion” in Summer Island. -Kristin Hannah
41. “Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it,” Brown wrote in Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution. -Brené Brown
42. Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not a fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, and correction, and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered. -L. Lionel Kendrick
43. “That’s a tremendous thing—to be able to hold the world inside of yourself, and still feel compassionate for it,” Rowell wrote in Any Way the Wind Blows. -Rainbow Rowell
44. “Listening with my Heart reminds us of the other golden rule—to treat ourselves with the same understanding and compassion we give to others,” Garcia wrote in Listening with My Heart: A story of kindness and self-compassion . -Gabi Garcia
45. “Sometimes the people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it most,” Ling wrote in Operation Happiness: The 3-Step Plan to Creating a Life of Lasting Joy, Abundant Energy, and Radical Bliss.-Kristi Ling
46. Ou-chad wrote “Sadness is beautiful. It makes us warm and tender. In those moments of vulnerability, we’re humble, and transparent. We connect with our being. We experience self-compassion in its entirety” in The Alien. -Anoir Ou-chad
47. Brown wrote: “Courage gives us a voice, and compassion gives us an ear.” Without both, there is no opportunity for empathy and connection “in I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame. -Brené Brown
48. Brown wrote: “Compassion is not a virtue—it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have—it’s something we choose to practice,” in I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame. -Brené Brown
49. In Mistborn: The Final Empire, Sanderson wrote, “There is beauty in compassion, but one must learn wisdom, too.” -Brandon Sanderson
50. Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It’s not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline – and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.- Glennon Doyle Melton
51. “When our beliefs come from a foundation of love and compassion, a just society will rise,” Maltz wrote in Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics. -Donna Maltz
52. “When you open the floodgates to love, you gently, compassionately, and powerfully transmute everything based on fear into love,” Franken wrote in The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct, & Insight. -Kris Franken
53. In The Secret of Staying in Love: Loving Relationships through Communication, Powell wrote: “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” -John Joseph Powell
54. Campbell wrote: “The fundamental human experience is that of compassion” in The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell). -Joseph Campbell
55. In The Secret of Staying in Love: Loving Relationships through Communication, Powell wrote: “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” -John Joseph Powell
56. Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. -Ellen DeGeneres
57. Anderson wrote, “The first step to empathy and compassion is realizing the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering” in Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness. -Oli Anderson
58. “Leaning on others is a beautiful act of self-compassion,” Clarke wrote in Protect Your Spark: How to Prevent Burnout and Live Authentically. -Sally Clarke
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