Quotes About Compassion

You know what really gives you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.

Have you found someone to share your heart with?" he asked. "Are you giving to your community? "Are you at peace with yourself?

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." His voice dropped to a whisper. "Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.' " He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. " 'Love is the only rational act.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others";

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Love is the only rational act.

The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction? ...Offering others what you have to give.

He told his friends that if they really wanted to help him, they would treat him not with sympathy but with visits, phone calls, a sharing of their problems

A wrestling match. He laughs. Yes, you could describe life that way. So which side wins, I ask? Which side wins? He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth. Love wins. Love always wins.

Mitch, if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

I don't want to fight, she whispered. Just come home.

if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for the people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch," he finally whispered. We also need to forgive ourselves." Ourselves? "Yes. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. That doesn't help you when you get to where I am.

Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right? His voice dropped to a whisper. But here's the secret : in between, we need others as well .

He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it.

Giving to other people is what makes me feel alive. Not my car or not my house. Not what I look in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad, it's as close to healthy as I ever feel.

Even God couldn't be that cruel.

Sometimes when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will

he didn't want to disrupt the boy's life any more than he already had.

We are blinded by our regrets. We don't realize who else we punish when we're punishing ourselves.

The next morning, shortly after sunrise, the Reb was awakened for a sponge bath. It was quiet and early. The nurse bathed him gently, and he was singing and humming to her, alive with the day. Then his head slumped and his music stopped forever.

We fear loneliness, Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. It is merely a shadow that falls over us. And just as shadows die when light changes, that sad feeling can depart once we see the truth." "What's the truth?" Annie asked. "That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you." The old woman smiled. "And the world is so full of need." *

Strangers, are just family you have yet to come to know.