10 quotes about Compassion

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

When I play the piano, I tend to feel happy, but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amidst the misery of others?

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others. ”

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.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Pity the one who don't know that they don't know what they don't know.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.