Compassion is the basis of morality. ...
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Sayings by Arthur Schopenhauer
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion Sayings
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa 
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Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
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You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Forgive with Compassion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
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We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
I choose acceptance and compassion toward all humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Compassion blooms where there is no expectation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Forgive Myself and All Others with Compassion.
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In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A consistent state of Serenity and Compassion
is living an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
I don't know the meaning of life,
but I know compassion is the key.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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