Quotations similar to COMPASSION - LOVE, ACCEPTANCE
Also see COMPASSION AFFIRMATIONS
Compiled by Che Garman
A generous action is its own reward. - William Walsh
A good person gives life to others; the wise person teaches others how to live. - Proverbs
A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all people one. - Thomas Carlyle
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. - Joseph Joubert
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. - Denis Waitley
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. - Henri Ibsen
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. - William Ward
Always give without remembering, and always receive without forgetting. - Brian Tracy
As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. - Albert Schweitzer
As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet. - Buddha
Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him yours. - Zig Ziglar
Be kind whenever possible. It is ALWAYS possible. - Dalai Lama
Bless everyone. The more you bless, the more blessed you will become. - Philip Arnold
Can't get no satisfaction? One's satisfaction is satisfied by satisfying others. - Rueben Lee
Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. - Julian of Norwich
Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves. - Pema Chodron
Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more human world. - Martin Lowenthal
Compassion is subtler than Vitamin C, but both are real needs. - Deepak Chopra
Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry. - Ryuho Okawa
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. - Chinese proverb
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can. - John Wesley
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
- Jean Paul Richter
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid. - Albert Schweitzer
Do unto others as they would like to have done unto them. - Kent Sayre
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. - Matthew 7:12
Doing good for others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness. - Zoroaster
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. - Horace Mann
Don't ever miss the opportunity to say something positive. - Unknown
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. - Mother Teresa
Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. - Henry David Thoreau
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
- Charles Dickens
He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves. - A P Gouthey
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
- Proverb
How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it! - George Elliston
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world. - Anne Frank
I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people. - Baba Ram Dass
I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done! - Henry Drummond
If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others. - Stephen Covey
If you can't feed a hundred people then just feed one. - Mother Teresa
If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way. - Bob Dylan
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself. - A. Neilen
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. - Arabian proverb
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - Dalai Lama
If you would take, you must first give. - Lao Tzu
It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you. - Cort Flint
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that you cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. - Dalai Lama
It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth. - Malcolm Forbes
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao Tzu
Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. - Theodore Isaac Rubin
Let no one come to you without leaving happier and better. - Mother Teresa
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. - Buddha
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have. - H Jackson Brown Jr
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. - William M Thackeray
Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you. - Frank Barron
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop
No one has ever become poor by giving. - Anne Frank
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. - Calvin Coolidge
Obsess over how much you can give with your time rather than how little of your time you can give. - Sam Parker
One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese Proverb
One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention. - Jim Rohn
Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others. - Deepak Chopra
Our opportunities to do good are our talents. - C Mather
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others, and if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. - Dalai Lama
Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others. - Earl Nightingale
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. - John Harrigan
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou
Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness. - Lao Tzu
Perhaps we should be judged by how we treat people who can do us absolutely no good. - Unknown
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit. We cannot flower without it. - Jess Lair
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. - H Jackson Brown, Jr
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. - Mary Kay Ash
Shall we try to make a new rule of life from tonight: Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary? - James M Barrie
Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out the more life will be able to pour in. - Jim Rohn
Spend your life lifting people up, not putting them down. - H Jackson Brown, Jr
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. - Gandhi
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. - Chief Seattle
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth. - Albert Einstein
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
- Pablo Casals
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have. - Leonard Nimoy
The most important ability is availability. - Unknown
The only gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth. - Wilfred Grenfell
The universe rejoices whenever a kind word is spoken. - Philip Arnold
The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood. - Arthur Powell Davies
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them - George Bernard Shaw
There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all. - Unknown
There are hundreds of ways to bring a smile to someone’s face. But the easiest way is to simply give them one of yours. - Che Garman
There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects. - Edith Wharton
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. - Mother Teresa
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. - John Andrew Holmes
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. - Han Suyin
There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence. - Stephen Covey
This society is not ‘user-friendly’ for older people. - Baba Ram Dass
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. - Samuel Johnson
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer. - Sa'Di
To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart. - John Maxwell
True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you. - Baba Ram Dass
True success is measured by how you treat the people in your life. - Unknown
Two things stand out like pillars in life: kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own. - Adam L. Gordon
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Dr Seuss
Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace. - Albert Schweitzer
We all need a boost from time to time, and a few lines of praise have been known to turn around a day, even a life. - Fred Bauer
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. - Ben Sweetland
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. - Ronald Reagan
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot
What the world needs is more love and less paperwork. - Pearl Bailey
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. - Confucius
When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke. - Lionel Blue
When you look at the world in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it. - Horace Rutledge
When you receive a kindness, remember it; when you do a kindness, forget it. - Greek Proverb
When you start treating people like people, they become people. - Paul Vitale
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. - Albert Schweitzer
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness. - Seneca
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius
Words have the power to destroy or heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. - Buddha
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. - John Wooden
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. - Winston Churchill
You must look into people as well as at them. - Lord Chesterfield
You never know when one act or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.
- Zig Ziglar
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