Brene Brown Quotes

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

True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

Compassion has to become a discipline. It's something that you do. It's no good thinking that you agree with compassion or not, you've just got to do it. Just like it's no good agreeing that it's possible to float, you just have to get into the pool and then you learn that it's possible.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.

When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity.

My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.

Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko

Kindness is the essence of greatness.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

It's harder to be kind than clever

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.