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Quotes About Compassion

If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.
~ Sun Myung Moon
Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.
~ Gisele Bundchen
I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.
~ Steve Vai
I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.
~ Brandon Boyd
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
~ John Gay
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.
~ Paul Valery
In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.
~ Gregory Peck
Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.
~ Immanuel Kant
A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.
~ Leonard Cohen
Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.
~ Paulo Coelho
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
~ Victor Hugo
Souls love. That's what souls do. Egos don't, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you'll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one.
~ Ram Dass
Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Act by inspiration, motivated by love.
~ Russell M. Nelson
An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.
~ Charles Eisenstein
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
~ Fulton J. Sheen
A world without love is a deadly place.
~ Helen Fisher
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
~ Wendell Willkie
Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.
~ Marianne Williamson
The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower.
~ Gary Zukav
My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
~ Therese of Lisieux
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
~ Paulo Freire
Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.
~ Desmond Tutu