Quotes About Compassion

Whoever is not able to sacrifice, has no talent for love.

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

I love animals and plants and sometimes even people.

I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.

In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.

No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.

We are here to love. Not much else matters.

Lukewarm people love others but do not seek to love others as much as they love themselves.

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

Ours should be the love that asks not 'how little?' but, 'how much?' The love that delights to pour out everything upon the feet of our Beloved.

If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

To love others you must first love yourself.

Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.

Love is love, no matter who you fall in love with, love is love, it can be painful, it can be wonderful.