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Quotes About Compassion

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Where there is love, there is God also.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.
~ Les Dawson
If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Be not afraid. God loves you & wants us to love one another as He loves us. As miserable, weak and sinful as we are, He loves us with an infinitely faithful love.
~ Mother Teresa
To love others as God loves you, that is the measure of success
~ Mother Teresa
True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.
~ Nhat Hanh
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.
~ Ray Bradbury
Love thyself, so that you can love another. Love thyself so that you cannot project fear. Love thyself so as to let others love you. Love thyself so as to let people near.
~ Robert Holden
Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.
~ Alveda King
Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.
~ Artur Rodzinski
If you love love, then love loves you too
~ Bruce Bruce
Everyone in their car needs love.
~ C.D. Wright
Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
~ Dante Alighieri
If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.
~ Darren Johnson
To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free.
~ Ernest Holmes
I was there in the beginning and I was the spirit of love.
~ Rumi
Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
God is love so all God does is loving.
~ Scot McKnight
Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.
~ Sharon Salzberg
I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works.
~ Shelley Long
The scars of others should teach us caution.
~ St. Jerome