Compasion Quotes

“Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

“Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“No hay nada más pesado que la compasión. Ni siquiera el propio dolor es tan pesado como el dolor sentido con alguien, por alguien, para alguien, multiplicado por la imaginación, prolongado en mil ecos.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“He supposes in this way he's learned to pray not as one might to the gods but as one does by simply pausing every now and then to think of others.”
― Vaddey Ratner, Music of the Ghosts

“- Nu trebuie să vezi compasiune acolo unde nu e.”
― Margaret Rogerson

“Parece que él no tiene dificultad para dormir', pensó Vasili con irritación mientras se inclinaba sobre la parte trasera del trineo y miraba a Nikita cubierto de nieve”
― Tolstoy, Leo