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Quotes About Compassion

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.
~ Frederick Buechner
You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.
~ Frederick Lenz
If they love another, let them love!
~ Frederick Lenz
You don't love perfectly without first loving imperfectly.
~ Frederick Lenz
It's far better to love impefectly than not to love at all.
~ Frederick Lenz
If you really love, then you're willing to step outside of your own love to do that which is right.
~ Frederick Lenz
The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.
~ Frederick Lenz
Practice love and self-acceptance and you'll have an absolutely beautiful life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.
~ Frederick Lenz
Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.
~ Frederick Lenz
We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.
~ Frederick Lenz
I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.
~ Frederick Lenz
As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person.
~ Frederick Lenz
To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.
~ Frederick Lenz
When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.
~ Frederick Lenz
Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's what you can give.
~ Frederick Lenz
When we love others we see our oneness with others.
~ Frederick Lenz
Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people.
~ Frederick Lenz
Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.
~ Frederick Lenz
As you meditate, you will be able to look at the beauties and horrors of life and accept them with an equal mind. You will love more and be kinder to those around you.
~ Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.
~ Frederick Lenz
Love is the highest of all qualities we can experience.
~ Frederick Lenz
If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love.
~ Frederick Lenz