Compassion Quotes

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

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