3,644 Quotes About Compassion

Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pain with patience, both as a condescendant contribution to supercilious compassion and as a proof of the eminence of their sense of worth. ("Prêt-à-penser" / "Ready-to-wear thinking")

A smile and the kind words have so much power.

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

It takes very little to make real people smile, but to make self-obsessed egomaniacs happy, even billions fall short.

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

Human beings are not separate from nature. We are nature. The beauty of the sunset is your own beauty. The power of the ocean is your power. We are inseparable from the beauty of the mountains, rivers, and forests that surround us. The more that you can allow your natural self to come out – to honour your natural beauty, your natural creativity, your natural thirst for leadership and compassion – the happier and healthier you’ll be.

A rich life is lived from a giving heart not a selfish mind.

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.