Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

it is the personal and individual thing which is done by one human being for another that is the most valuable assistance which can be rendered in time of trouble. Better not only for the one who receives, but a thousand times happier for the one who gives.

We should care about each other.

Compassion is a verb.

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

I've always wanted to make sure people are okay, ever since I was a little girl.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

No one should be left to suffer alone.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

I want everyone to know there is always someone there for you.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

It is important that friends should understand each other in their difficult hours.