40 Quotes on Compassion that will inspire you today

Here are 40 Quotes on Compassion quotes that will inspire your life and help you connect with others

1. “In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.” — Buddha

2. “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” — Buddha

3. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” — Dalai Lama

4. "Compassion is not condescending kindness. It is a passionate engagement with everything around you.” — Sadhguru

5. “Compassion comes with connectivity and connectivity can happen when you are free from within.” — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

6. “The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.” — Dalai Lama

7.  “Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.” — Patanjali

8. “Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” — Nelson Mandela

9. “Let us full our hearts with our own compassion towards ourselves and towards all living beings.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

10. “Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.” — Dalai Lama

11. “Compassion is the radicalism of our time.” — Dalai Lama

12. “Out of all the emotions that you can nurture within you, compassion is the least entangling, and at the same time, the most liberating emotion that you can have.” — Sadhguru

13. “If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion.” — Eckhart Tolle

14. “Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognised moral qualities of men.” — Confucius

15. “Seva is serving others and helping others with compassion, serving not for personal gratification but to uplift others.” — Swami Niranjananda

16. “Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” — Buddha

17. “Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.” — Dalai Lama

18. True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it. — Daniel Coleman

19. “Open your heart to compassion. Understand the sufferings of others and be ever ready to help them. The whole world is one family. All are children of God. The whole world is your abode, share what you have with others. A compassionate heart is the abode of God.”

— Swami Sivananda

20. “Compassion means an all-encompassing passion. When it is exclusive, we call it passion. When it becomes all-inclusive, it becomes compassion.” — Sadhguru

21. “Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn

22. “Compassion is a verb.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

23. “Love and compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.” — Dalai Lama

24. “Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.” — Paulo Coelho

25. “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.” — Buddha

26. “Love Entangles, Compassion Liberates.” — Sadhguru

27. “Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.” — Dalai Lama

28. “Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self.” — Russell Simmons

29. “There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.” — John Connolly

30. “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.” — Maya Angelou

31. “The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.” — Dalai Lama

32. “Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends” — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

33. “With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.” — Keshavan Nair

34. “As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.” — Ram Dass

35. “There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos” — Milan Kundera

36. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” — Dalai Lama

37. “Compassion is not a virtue—it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have—it’s something we choose to practice.” — Brené Brown

38. “Compassion isn’t some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we’re trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don’t even want to look at.” — Pema Chödrön

39. “Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” — Stevie Wonder

40. “Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peached and joy finally for you too.”  — Frederick Buechner