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Quotes About Compassion

In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.
~ Liya Kebede
Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?
~ Zhou Xun
We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience.
~ Gary Zukav
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
~ Quintilian
A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.
~ Zengzi
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
~ Anne Lamott
Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.
~ Rajneesh
The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace
~ Karen Armstrong
Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life.
~ Karen Armstrong
Our greatest natural resources are our hearts and minds, together with those of the people around us.
~ Diane Dreher
You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.
~ Randy Newman
I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.
~ Moon Unit Zappa
I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one.
~ David Hockney
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
~ Gustav Stresemann
Together we are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world through kindness
~ Robert Alan Aurthur
Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.
~ Alister E. McGrath
Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.
~ Allen West
Together on the path of love, we can try to make a small difference in someone's life. What else is there to do?
~ Chan Khong
At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.
~ Robert Carlyle
Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world.
~ William J. Clinton
Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
~ Dorothy Day
When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.
~ Jordan Peele
Love is the glue that holds the world together.
~ Starhawk