Daniel Goleman Quotes

Compassion takes imagination.

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

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

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.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

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

Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

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

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.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

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

Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength.

Compassion is concern of others' well being.

When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

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

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

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

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.

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