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Quotes About Compassion

One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa
~ Mother Teresa
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
The Noblest form of Affection
~ Oscar Wilde
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is no remedy for love but to love more."- Henry David Thoreau
~ Henry David Thoreau
What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
~ Mother Teresa
I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
~ Mother Teresa
The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.
~ Voltaire
How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh
~ A.A. Milne
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
~ Toni Morrison, Beloved
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you.
~ Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.
~ David Levithan, Every Day
I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.
~ Nina LaCour, Hold Still
The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.
~ Steve Hall
And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
~ Christopher Poindexter
If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
~ W.H. Auden