Quotes About Compassion

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn't-eat.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.

Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said." Love is the only rational act.

You must love beyond the difference of all religions, all nations, and all races. You are originally one.

I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love can heal, love can console, love can strengthen, and yes, love can make change.

You have to give love to get love.

Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.