Quotes About Compassion

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

A mother is the truest friend we have.

See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.

The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried.

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."

As my mother once said to me, 'They're quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?