Jules Renard Quotes

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

Compassion is concern of others' well being.

If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours.

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

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

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.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

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

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.

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