Quotes About Compassion

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.

Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence.

There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent.

You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

If you have made another person on this earth smile, your life has been worthwhile.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to lovel

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

The issue is not so much being loved but being loving, which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

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.

When we connect with ourselves in love, we can connect with others and the planet in love.

Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.

True love always brings joy to ourself and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.