Compassion Quotes

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.

Nick Rahall

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Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Joan Halifax

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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

Kailash Satyarthi

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The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.

Myles Munroe

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I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

Andrew Sarris

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Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

Karen Armstrong

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I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.

Mark Ruffalo

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There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.

Max Lucado

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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

Gavin Hood

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You don't have to be a Kerli fan to be a Moon Child, and you don't have to be a Moon Child to be a Kerli fan. You just have to make the best of what you have and have compassion for yourself and for others always.

Kerli

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My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.

Ann Cleeves

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

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I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

Kimberly Elise

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Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.

Mercy Otis Warren

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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

Dada Vaswani

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Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

Julian Baggini

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But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Amy Grant

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Being a typical teenager isn't easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well as compassion towards these young people.

Holly Robinson Peete

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Compassion and empathy are anathema to sports.

Steve Rushin

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As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

Greg Boyle

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I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.

Tom Cruise

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I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.

Eric Whitacre

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We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Ron Reagan

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The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

Frans de Waal

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