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Compassion Quotes

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

Jesus has very clearly said in the gospel. "Whatever you do, do to the least of my brethren." Clear? That was the work of Jesus.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

See the good in people and help them.

I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise.

Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.

He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.

In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.

If with uncorrupted mind you feel good will for even one being, you become skilled from that. But a Noble One produces a mind of sympathy for all beings, an abundance of merit.