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Quotes About Compassion

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
~ John Dryden
Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative.
~ John Dryden
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
~ John Dryden
Judi, a person's worth isn't measured by her utility. We're not tools. We're here to think. To feel. To be good to each other
~ John Dufresne
The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn't be. We are our brothers' keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.
~ John Dufresne
You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they're normal to you because you've been dealing with them all your life.
~ John Dufresne
Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.
~ John Dufresne
Every dog deserves a place to live. Every dog deserves a place in your heart. Every dog deserves a place to walk. Every dog deserves a place to run. John Duncan.
~ John Duncan
True love allows that any activity done for the other, even if it is sacrificial, is joyful.
~ John Dunlop
Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.
~ Christina Rossetti
You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness.
~ Curt Mega
A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.
~ Dalai Lama
For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
~ Daniel A. D'Aniello
To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.
~ Danielle Steel
I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing, or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages.
~ Deborah Priya Henry
Life is all about Living, Forgiving and Loving!.
~ Deborah Roberts
If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life.
~ Demi Lovato
my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.
~ Dorothy Allison
Selfishness and separatation have led me to believe that the world is not my problem. I am the world.
~ Edward Kowalczyk
I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life
~ Ewan McGregor
Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.
~ Gautama Buddha
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
~ George Eliot
For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
~ George Eliot