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Quotes About Compassion

Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.
~ Clare of Assisi
At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.
~ Maya Angelou
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen
The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.
~ Gautama Buddha
You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world
~ Trent Shelton
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
~ Mary, Queen of Scots
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
~ Charles Dickens
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.
~ Mother Teresa
Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.
~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Every girl deserves a guy who'll prove to her that not all guys are the same, a guy who'll love her just the way she is.
~ Lil Wayne
Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.
~ Anthony of Padua
Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way
~ Pablo Neruda
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
~ Pope John Paul II
Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but Love.
~ Rumi
Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.
~ Elijah Muhammad
The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.
~ Ramakrishna
Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.
~ Ajahn Brahm
There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.
~ Romain Rolland
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
~ Huey Newton
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
~ Teresa of Avila
God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.
~ Oscar Romero
Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.
~ Pope Francis
We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more.
~ Saint Joseph