Quotes About Compassion

Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. PHILIPPIANS 2:4

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one's heart to stone.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

you will always love, and you will always be loved

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less.

It is very wrong to kill any one[.] Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.