Quotes About Compassion

Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

When we send Love in response to hate, we become spiritual alchemists.

So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face' too roughly.

Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.

The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

I am willing to see things differently. I am willing to see love.

Love is the most powerful weapon in the world for good. I really believe that.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

There is no right or wrong behavior. The only meaningful choice is between fear and love.

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it's because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.

Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.

The art of love-giving and taking become one.

When women love, they forgive everything...

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is a gift of empowerment and love.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?