Quotes About Compassion

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.

The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

There's no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

The nature of faith, I think, is based so much on one's capacity for hope for those whom you love.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Nature has inclined us to love men.

Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.

Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.

In order to like someone you don't necessarily need to agree with them. It's part of our nature to want to connect.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

Human nature is disposed to do good.

Remember your natural affection for all of creation.

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.