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Quotes About Compassion

Love does not seek to please itself, but offers itself and its life to others.
~ Frederick Lenz
The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it.
~ Frederick Lenz
If one has an enlighened teacher and you come to this person with love, they will show you the ways of love.
~ Frederick Lenz
We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
~ Freya Stark
Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people?
~ Friedrich Kellner
This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.
~ Billy Graham
No argument, no reasoning, no blame, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
Love is a better way.
~ John Lewis
You can choose love or hate…I choose love.
~ Johnny Cash
Love them that hate you, but you can't love those you hate.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Bahujanahit?ya bahujanasukh?ya lok?nukamp?ya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
~ Gautama Buddha
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.But if it's not like that, be brief in forgettingAnd after you've forgotten, don't keep anything.
~ Victor Hugo
To love is to act.
~ Victor Hugo
You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger love can even hold hatred.
~ Alice Walker
The measure of love is to love without measure.
~ attributed to Saint Augustine
[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems....
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
~ Mother Teresa