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Quotes About Compassion

Love is patient and trusting; it doesn't hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
The soul of woman lives in love.
~ Lydia Sigourney
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
"There is love." Someone wrote that for me on a piece of paper in an airport when I probably looked like I really needed to hear it. I did. We all need the reminder sometimes.
~ Madi Diaz
Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin' nobody else.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Hatred is never overcome by hatred but by love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is the law of love that rules mankind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In order for people to recover, we can't just say 'love is all we need.'
~ Maia Szalavitz
Maybe love can kill better than hate.
~ Maia Wojciechowska
So, in life we have a one question final exam - and it's not the kind of exam you can cram for at the very end. One of the main reasons we're alive is to expand our capacity to love.
~ Marci Shimoff