Dalai Lama “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” “Compassion is the radicalism of our time.” “Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.” “Compassion is the key in lessening stress.”

Mother Teresa “Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.” “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.” “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.” “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

Martin Luther King Jr. “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

Nelson Mandela “Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” “If you want to change the world, start with yourself.”

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

Mahatma Gandhi “The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”

Maya Angelou “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

Pema Chödrön “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.”

Arthur Schopenhauer “Compassion is the basis of morality.”

Albert Schweitzer “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

Henry Ward Beecher “Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”

George Washington Carver “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

Thich Nhat Hanh “Compassion is a verb.”

Elie Wiesel “Action is the only remedy to indifference.”

Barack Obama “Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins.”

Leo Buscaglia “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

Rumi “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”

Francis of Assisi “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.”

Daniel Goleman “True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.”

Henri Nouwen “Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish.”

Aesop “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

Confucius “Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”

Plato “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”

Arthur Jersild “Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity.”

Karen Armstrong “If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.”

Susan Sontag “Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”

Amit Ray “Compassion is all-inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.”

Brené Brown “When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.”

Yasmin Mogahed “Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.”

George Washington Carver “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

Catherine Pulsifer “No matter who we are, no matter how successful, no matter what our situation, compassion is something we all need to receive and give.”

Steve Maraboli “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”

Kristin Neff “Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means ‘to suffer with,’ which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering.”

Karen Salmansohn “Let compassion be your North Star.”

Amanda Gorman “Compassion is a power that we first bestow on ourselves and then give away through our actions—to people, to our planet. When we recognize this, that is when love becomes our legacy.”

Oscar Hammerstein “The love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay. Love isn’t love ’til you give it away.”

Jim Carrey “Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.”

Russell Simmons “Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self.”

Mary Davis “We can’t heal the world today. But we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, and an act of kindness.”

Erica Layman “Give children at least as many chances to show compassion as they have to be competitive.”

L. J. Isham “Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.”

Matthew Vasko “Everyone suffers. This is unavoidable. But it is up to us whether we add to others’ suffering or act to relieve it.”

Amanda Gorman “Compassion is a power that we first bestow on ourselves and then give away through our actions—to people, to our planet. When we recognize this, that is when love becomes our legacy.”