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Quotes about Compassion


Unbounded courage and compassion join'd,
Tempering each other in the victor's mind,
Alternately proclaim him good and great,
And make the hero and the man complete.

Joseph Addison

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.

John Quincy Adams

I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed;
I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,
And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

Walt Whitman

Bowels of compassion.

New Testament

Love took new forms, that was all. Forms like compassion

Compassion? Did that seem the proper balm wherewith to anoint his soul's bruises?

Compassion, pity: are they not much the same What right have I to bestow pity?

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Ursula LeGuin

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.

Albert Einstein

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

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 life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Dalai Lama

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Meister Eckhart

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Lord Byron

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Albert Schweitzer

The Farmer and the Snake One winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. Oh, cried the Farmer with his last breath, I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel. The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

Aesop

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

William Cowper

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

John Berger

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

William John Bennett

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Everett M. Dirksen

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Eric Hoffer

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