Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not

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

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

Love and kindness are never wasted.

Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.