Quotes About Compassion

Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.

Love each other. Regard each other as members of one family.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.

Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.

Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone.

It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Life is the love that reaches out, building bridges across gulfs of uncertainty to touch hands, hearts, and souls in the experience of union.

You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.

If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.