“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.”
Others on Compassion
Dalai Lama
3 quotes“The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question...”
Simone de Beauvoir
3 quotes“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation an...”
Barack Obama
3 quotes“Our values call upon us to care about people we'll never meet.”
Plato
3 quotes“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
Albert Schweitzer
3 quotes“The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.”
William Wordsworth
3 quotes“That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”
Tennessee Williams
2 quotes“To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.”
Charlie Chaplin
2 quotes“My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.”
Cher
2 quotes“There is no small act of kindness.Every compassionate act makes large the world.”
Mother Teresa
2 quotes“Give, but give until it hurts.”
Buddha
2 quotes“Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion...”
Thich Nhat Hanh
2 quotes“Compassion is a verb.”