Top 200 Compassion Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

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2. “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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3. “Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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4. “This is a moment of suffering. Suffering is part of life. May I be kind to myself in this moment. May I give myself the compassion I need.”

— Kristin Neff

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5. “Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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6. “Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.”

— Albert Schweitzer

7. “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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8. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”

— Rumi

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9. “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”

— Brené Brown

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10. “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

— Mother Teresa

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11. “World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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12. “You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.”

— Cicely Saunders

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13. “The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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14. “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”

— Fred Rogers

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15. “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”

— Paul the Apostle

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16. “Love all, serve all, feed all.”

— Neem Karoli Baba

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17. “I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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18. “Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Love Life Quotes

19. “Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.”

— Jim Henson

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20. “A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Service Quotes

21. “I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Care Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

22. “Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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23. “We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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24. “With genuine love and compassion, another person’s appearance or behavior has no effect on your attitude.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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25. “What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.”

— Burt Bacharach

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26. “The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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27. “We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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28. “Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference – in our own lives and those of others.”

— Sharon Salzberg

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29. “An open heart is an open mind.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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30. “Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

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32. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

— Harper Lee

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33. “To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

— Alexander Pope

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34. “When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.”

— Chester Bennington

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35. “Grief is the price we pay for love.”

— Queen Elizabeth II

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36. “The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive.”

— O. A. Battista

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37. “Caring is the essence of nursing.”

— Jean Watson

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38. “You are kind. You are smart. You are important.”

— Kathryn Stockett

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39. “I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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40. “You are beautiful just the way you are.”

— Nick Vujicic

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41. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

— Mother Teresa

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42. “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”

— Pema Chödrön

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43. “Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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44. “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”

— J.K. Rowling

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45. “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”

— Paul McCartney

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46. “Love wins, love always wins.”

— Mitch Albom

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47. “Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.”

— Brené Brown

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48. “Love to be real, it must cost – it must hurt – it must empty us of self.”

— Mother Teresa

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49. “If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can’t survive.”

— Brené Brown

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50. “I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”

— Rumi

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