Dalai Lama Quotes

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

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

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.

I'm quite shocked and have been for quite a while as for the way people are treating each other. That's why I go out and I speak for the hungry, and if I see somebody needs a hug during the day, I'll go and give them a hug, and I think we should all use a little bit more of that.

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.

As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.

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

People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

We are a compassionate society.

You never know how many people are compassionate about something, especially when it's not happening to you. You just hope somebody's out there helping.

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

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

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

The key to overcoming aloneness and a feeling of uselessness for one who is physically able is to step outside yourself by helping others who are truly needy. We promise those who will render this kind of service that, in some measure, you will be healed of the loss of loved ones or the dread of being alone. The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else's circumstances.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

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

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

The more we are concerned for the well being of others, the closer we will feel to each other.

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

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self