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Quotes About Compassion

I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind.
~ David Richo
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
~ Erich Fromm
A little love and attention can go a long way...too bad more people don't realize that.
~ Frank Peretti
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.
~ Andre Dubus
Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
~ Andrew Vachss
As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
The flowering of love is meditation.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love is perfect kindness.
~ Joseph Campbell
I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.
~ Lee Radziwill
A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.
~ Lil Wayne
Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.
~ Mother Teresa
Only love can break your heart.
~ Neil Young
May love be your guide in every moment of your life.
~ Paulo Coelho
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
~ Peter De Vries
You don't have to earn or deserve love. You are love. Loving is never about how others treat you. It is always about how you are treating yourself.
~ Rhonda Britten
If you don't love yourself, who is supposed to do it for you?
~ Rickson Gracie
Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Love is our true destiny.
~ Thomas Merton
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
~ Thomas Traherne
What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?
~ Robert Hayden
Love what you do. Enjoy listening to people. It can be hard work, but the potential for helping people is tremendous.
~ Robert Tisserand
I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.
~ Rosie Huntington-Whiteley