Thomas Noon Talfourd Quotes

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

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

When we focus on others, our world expands.

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

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

You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.

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

Pity enlarges the heart.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

Many people are unhappy and are not experiencing life to its fullest because they’ve closed their hearts to compassion, they are motivated by only what they want and what they think they need. They rarely do anything for anybody else unless they have an ulterior goal in mind. They are self-involved and self-centered.

Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.

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.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

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

Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.

Compassion is a quality which impels one to perform sacrifices.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I will try and become a very empathetic person because I do think that's a nice trait.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.