(428 quotes found)
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
Lao Tzu
“Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein
“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
“The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.”
Chogyam Trungpa
“I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend”
Dalai Lama
“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”
“Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
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