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Quotes About Compassion

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.
~ Leonard Cohen
Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.
~ Paulo Freire
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
~ Albert Camus
Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
~ John of the Cross
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.
~ Virginia Satir
Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
~ Ho Chi Minh
If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.
~ Frank Sinatra
I'm in love with everyone I've ever met in one way or another. I'm just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.
~ Edie Sedgwick
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
~ Anne Lamott
The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
~ Adyashanti
People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.
~ Mother Teresa
If you don't love yourself, I'll make you see your own heart.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
~ Axl Rose
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
~ Desmond Tutu
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.
~ Cesar Chavez
If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.
~ Adrian Rogers
Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.
~ John the Apostle
Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.
~ Konrad Lorenz
To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.
~ Michelangelo
The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.
~ Irena Sendler
The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.
~ Deepak Chopra
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
~ David Wilkerson
Love is the most powerful weapon on the face of the earth.
~ Prince Ea
We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.
~ Stevie Wonder