Quotes About Compassion

Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith which does not need, but always has, reason.

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

Learn to drink as you pour, so the spiritual heart cannot run dry and you always have love to give.

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

Love will not just heal your life or mine. Love will heal the world.

Your giving and searching for ways to give is Love in action. This is the evidence of Spirit at work.

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.

Go into the heart of love, and come from that place in all your choices and decisions, and you will find peace.

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

What if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?

To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

The cultural transformation from the love of power to the power of love is the drama of our time.

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love and serve others like never before.