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Quotes About Compassion

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
~ Author Unknown
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
~ Author Unknown
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
~ Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
There should be no tear on your cheek, dear, had my hand the access to brush it away.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1881
Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.
~ Terri Guillemets
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
~ Malayan proverb
When you're happy, I'm happy. When you're sad, I'm sad. When you're lonely, call me!
~ Author Unknown
If instead of a gem, or even of a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving, as the angels, I suppose, must give. But you did more and better for me than that.
~ George MacDonald
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
~ Author Unknown
Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
~ Chinese proverb
No one but an aviator has a right to look down on others.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Be kind to everyone on the way up; you'll meet the same people on the way down.
~ Wilson Mizner
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love is abortion.
~ Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
~ Katha Pollitt
Love and respect old age people because you are aging too…
~ Aprana Verma
Thank God for men who manage to hold from afar, wipe tears away with tender words and dish out the life force that is hope. She has never felt so alone but out there, across an ocean, and in a foreign land, there is a man who loves her and would lay down his life just so she could feel the light once again.
~ Donna Lynn Hope
Things in life are never just black or white…They are many shades in between, so before you make a snap judgement consider what's going on around you…everyone is fighting some battle of their own and it's not all about you.
~ Karen Kastyla
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
~ H. L. Mencken
The Rosicrucian tradition encourages each student to discover the wisdom, compassion, strength, and peace that already reside within each of us.
~ H. Spencer Lewis
Every time a child is harmed, HUMANITY takes a backward step
~ H. Stanley Judd
A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
~ H. W. Dodds
Fear is the worst virus of all, and the cure is love
~ H. W. Mann
Beauty is more than skin deep. Beauty radiates from deep within. The innocence of a child. The love in someone's heart. A willingness to help others. The desire to make the world a better place. Someone painfully knocked down in life, who gets up, smiles, and continues to blossom.
~ H.W. Mann
Bring joy into the world, because you are joy. Bring love into the world, because you are love. Bring light into the world, because you are light. Be authentic, and you express your part, as only you can, and the world becomes a better place, for all creation
~ H.W. Mann