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Quotes About Compassion

I was not born to share the hate, but love.
~ Sophocles
When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human being or beings concerned.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Love is the essence of the universe,. Love in action is service.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.
~ Steve Carell
If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple
~ Steven Morrissey
I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.
~ Talib Kweli
Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.
~ Terry Hayes
Love is the piety of the affections.
~ Theodore Parker
An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Shift from judgment to compassion to love.
~ Thomas Leonard
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
~ Thomas Mann
In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.
~ Thomas Merton
Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.
~ Tori Spelling
Grow a garden, give food away, resist the temptation to give into hate, change it up and try peacemaking for once, love your neighbor, love your enemy.
~ Tripp York
If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.
~ Van Jones
Your capacity to love is your capacity to experience the I of another.
~ Walter Starcke
I think the way we show love for God is by loving each other, by extending the love that we are.
~ Wayne Dyer
Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love.
~ William Barclay
Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
~ William Shakespeare
Love is in the giver, not the gift.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Operate from a place of love, be kind, and be yourself.
~ Xosha Roquemore
When you say 'I love you', you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying 'I love you' to yourself, the planet & The Universe.
~ Yoko Ono