Quotes About Compassion

I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.

We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, "I was wrong, I'm sorry." And we also need to say, "That's all right, I love you."

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other's faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance.

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Just because I'm married to Doug doesn't mean I can't be here for you.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

when you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.

Love without conditions.

You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world.