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Quotes About Compassion

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
~ Erich Fromm
No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.
~ Anandamayi Ma
Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.
~ Che Guevara
It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.
~ Dalai Lama
I love myself, therefore, I behave in a loving way to all people for I know that that which I give out returns to me multiplied.
~ Louise Hay
When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive.
~ Alex Grey
We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
~ Joycelyn Elders
If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.
~ Ram Dass
Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
~ Leo Buscaglia
In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way.
~ Morgan Freeman
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
~ Sigmund Freud
So you say you love the poor? Name them.
~ Gustavo Gutiérrez
Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will.
~ Jane Frances de Chantal
We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.
~ Mother Teresa
When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
~ Jacqueline Carey
Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
When you are able to love someone unconditionally , without reason, you can begin to understand God's unconditional love for you.
~ Habib Ali al-Jifri
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
~ Petrarch
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
~ Albert Ellis
If I abuse myself daily, who can I love?
~ Big K.R.I.T.
We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
~ Marianne Williamson