Quotes About Compassion

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

Money should be used to help others.

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side...

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

Real kindness seeks no return.

Loving one another is half of wisdom.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.