Quotes About Compassion

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter. That's something.

Until one becomes a mother, no one can ever tell you what it will feel like to love someone else so deeply and profoundly that you will rejoice when they rejoice, ache when they ache, feel what they feel — even without ever speaking a word.

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."

"My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am."

"I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?"

In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find someone who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you.

To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.

In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.

I think forgiveness is probably one of the greatest forms of self-love there is because you don't do forgiveness for anybody else. My captors will never care if I forgive them…It will not make a day of difference to them at all, but it will make a huge difference to me.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

Thank God I have parents who'd support the crazy things I did. If my dad found a snake, I'd take it to the woods. I was always taking these homeless birds and homeless cats home.

I had a few pimples here and there when I was 14. Never had braces though, thank God. A girl in my class had, like, the big helmet of head gear. I felt so bad for her. People always made fun of me enough because of my name.

No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that.

The world has already been too tough on her, the least she needs is tough love. Be tough when you need to be, but always be soft with her. She has thorns, but she is a flower.

When we don't allow others to suffer the consequences of their actions we cripple them emotionally. We deprive them of the ability to learn from their mistakes. We also take away their ability to overcome their problems and change their life for the better.

Love is of God.

Above all, children need our unconditional love, whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

Unconditional love gives without expecting anything back.

Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do… it isn't something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day.

There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.

"When somebody else's happiness is your happiness, that is love."

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

"I saw that you were perfect and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and i loved you even more."