Compassion Quotes

Quotes about empathy, understanding others, and leading with a compassionate heart.

1. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — Dalai Lama
2. Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. — Pema Chödrön
3. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Mahatma Gandhi
4. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear. — Leo Buscaglia
5. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. — Maya Angelou
6. Our human compassion binds us the one to the other — not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings. — Nelson Mandela