“There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.”— Audrey Hepburn, amazon.com
“Picture yourself when you were five. In fact, dig out a photo of little you at that time and tape it to your mirror. How would you treat her, love her, feed her? How would you nurture her if you were the mother of little you? I bet you would protect her fiercely while giving her space to spread her…”— Kris Carr, amazon.com
“Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone’s heart.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“Compassion basically means accepting people’s frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.”— Osho, amazon.com
“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“If I want someone to understand my perspective, it helps to understand where they're at and meet them there.”— Laci Green, twitter.com
“Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Good people are like candles; they burn themselves up to give others light.”— Turkish Proverb, amazon.com
“There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself.”— Osho, osho.com
“And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”— Chris Abani, ted.com
“You’ve got to love yourself with all your shortcomings, and you’ve got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.”— Joan Bauer, amazon.com
“All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”— Ken Kesey, amazon.com
“Americans are really good at acute compassion, but pretty bad at chronic empathy. We, without question, haul strangers out of a raging flood, give blood, give food, give shelter. But we are lousy at legislating safe, sustainable communities, at eldercare, at accessible streets and buildings. It is t…”— Sigrid Ellis, twitter.com
“Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.”— Jack Kornfield, amazon.com
“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man or woman.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away.”— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com