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Quotes About Compassion

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
~ Jack Kornfield
If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance
~ James Augustus St. John
The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.
~ Jean Houston
Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.
~ Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Life is in the living. Love is in the giving.
~ Joan Walsh Anglund
Love overlooks a person's faults. That's not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.
~ Joel Osteen
He does not show humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?), but he who, being rebuked by another, does not decrease his love toward him.
~ John Climacus
If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?
~ John Irving
In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors.
~ John Robinson
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
~ John Steinbeck
And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.
~ John Wesley
Go my friend bestow your love even on your enemies if you touch their hearts what do you think will happen.
~ Rumi
Feelings of worth come when a woman follows the example of the Master. Her sense of infinite worth comes from her own Christlike yearning to reach out with love, as He does.
~ Russell M. Nelson
The cultivation of Love is the greatest need today.
~ Sai Baba
To what will love not stoop!
~ Samuel Beckett
Love helps you to know yourself... turn your vision inward.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself
~ Shakti Gawain
If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.
~ Sri Chinmoy
If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.
~ Steven Morrissey
For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.
~ Susan Abulhawa
We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.
~ Terry Brooks
The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.
~ Thomas Merton