Quotes About Compassion

"Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law."

"My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no-one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command."

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

That's when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth.

Best friend: someone you can only stay mad at for so long because you have important things to talk about.

Friends pick us up when we fall down, and if they can't pick us up, they lie down and listen for a while.

A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.

Love thy neighbor, just watch out for the husband

I was not kicking Brady; I was just loving him with my boot.

If she happens to fall, I'll be there to laugh at first and then help her up afterwards.

We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell – we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain.

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.

Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you… If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

God, please help me not be an asshole, is about as common a prayer as I pray in my life.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

Greed is good until it affects someone's Need…

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

As long as greed is stronger than compassion, there will always be suffering.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not happiness.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier.