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Quotes About Compassion

You can always get someone to love you - even if you have to do it yourself.
~ Tom Masson
I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.
~ Doug E. Fresh
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
~ Lawrence Durrell
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
~ Richard Rohr
People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.
~ Rajneesh
When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.
~ Javan
The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.
~ Martin Luther
There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.
~ Mother Teresa
Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Love alone can explain the mysteries of Love.
~ Rumi
Treat other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals as family and they become family. Give other animals your love and they will love you in return.
~ Anthony D. Williams
Kindness and love open the doors to one's soul.
~ Anthony D. Williams
Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.
~ Christina Perri
Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.
~ Dave Brubeck
Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.
~ David Frost
Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.
~ Doc Childre
Truth without love kills, but love without truth lies.
~ Eberhard Arnold
I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.
~ Francoise Sagan
Love forgives the lover even his lust.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love is the great protector, protecting us from anger and jealousy.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The love of a single heart can make a world of difference.
~ Immaculee Ilibagiza