Cesare Pavese Quotes

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.

It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

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

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

Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

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

Compassion is concern of others' well being.

Whatever you wish to experience in your own lifetime, cause another to experience in theirs. What you bring to another, you bring to the Self, for there is no other in ultimate reality.

Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

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

Feel for others - in your pocket

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.

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.

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.

We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.

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

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

Why should my love be powerless to help another?

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.