Quotes About Compassion

I don't have time to hate people who hate me because I'm too busy loving people who love me.

No one is born hating another person... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Hating withers your heart. Hearts that don't pump love, atrophy.

Hate is misguided love.

We cannot heal when hate persists.

A loving heart heals hate.

His heart beats only love — not a drop of hate-tinged blood in his body.

Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.

...for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

Before healing others, heal yourself.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Let the rays of your heart shine on all who pass by.

Even though your broken heart may never heal, bless those who help hold together the pieces.

UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

I am going to give from every corner of my soul.

And what more sublime delight than to... share our bread with one to whom misfortune has left none!

Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem...

To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better.

It's good to be blessed. It's better to be a blessing.

People are marvelous in their generosity if they just know the cause is there.

Each of us can only do the best we can for as many as we can and that will never be good enough for those of us who care!

Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have.

Hugs grease the wheels of the world.