Compassion Quotes

I am for people. I can't help it.

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?

In this world, hate never yet dispelled hate, only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel.

Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings, and loving-kindness towards all the world.

Let those who desire Buddhahood not train in many Dharmas but only one. Which one? Great compassion. Those with great compassion possess all the Buddha's teaching as if it were in the palm of their hand.

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.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

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

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

Let us use love and compassion. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

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