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Quotes About Compassion

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy.
~ Sa'di
If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink.
~ Romans
The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.
~ Frank Field
Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.
~ Don Marquis
It is better to be envied than pitied.
~ Herodotus
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
~ Anais Nin
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
~ Agnes Repplier
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
~ Romans
Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
~ Beryl Markham
What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
~ Sonia Johnson
Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.
~ Audrey Hepburn
Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
~ C. S. Lewis
To love one's neighbors, to love one's enemies, to love everything - to love God in all His manifestations - human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the whole world than any sermon.
~ Arthur Pendenys
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.
~ Marie Corelli
Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
~ Marlene Dietrich
People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.
~ Helen Prejean
I tell you, there is no such thing as creative hate!
~ Willa Cather
Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.
~ Dorothy Thompson
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
~ Hermann Hesse
It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.
~ Peter von Winter
A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.
~ Homer