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Quotes About Compassion

Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.
~ John Wesley
Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.
~ Dalai Lama
The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.
~ William Arthur Ward
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.
~ Dalai Lama
In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
~ Jon Ronson
Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.
~ Edgar Guest
If we cut speed and relax with what's going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.
~ Sakyong Mipham
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.
~ Alan Cohen
Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.
~ Francis Quarles
Patience and love can do anything.
~ Nancy Farmer
The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.
~ Dalai Lama
We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.
~ Francois Fenelon
We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.
~ Dalai Lama
Patience is the art of caring slowly.
~ John Ciardi
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.
~ Ann M. Fudge
It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.
~ Dalai Lama
My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.
~ Wil Wheaton
Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.
~ Marlena De Blasi
Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.
~ Dalai Lama