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Quotes About Compassion

Everyone's really saying the same thing: Love, forgiveness and peace; just saying it in different ways.
~ Unknown
My basic belief and effort, firstly to try and promote some of the useful emotions such as compassion or forgiveness and through the that way the spirit of reconciliation?s and the spirit of dialogue. These will increase.
~ Dalai Lama
The play's about forgiveness,
~ Steve Earle
As a result of that forgiveness, I will never criticize or attack any of your past actions or remarks concerning matters of race relations or civil rights. Remember senator, we all make errors. Committing errors is not a tragedy, but failing to learn from them is a great one.
~ James Carville
You've asked for forgiveness. This letter is to inform you that, on the heels of a statement by my dear friend, Congressman John Lewis, a man I admire and respect as much as any living American, I do forgive you.
~ James Carville
I understand that forgiveness does not come cheaply. It's something that comes from the heart. And I can just ask the people that were involved directly and indirectly, and were affected by this case, to consider forgiving me.
~ Unknown
For this crime we should beg the souls of the dead and their families for forgiveness,
~ Aleksander Kwasniewski
I believe in sympathy, compassion and forgiveness,
~ Pervez Musharraf
This movie is about forgiveness,
~ Unknown
Tolkien offers sympathy, surrender, friendship and, most of all, forgiveness.
~ Unknown
Proclaim forgiveness and reconciliation, which are the only way to achieve stable harmony.
~ Joseph Ratzinger
Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
~ Bill Ferguson
Forgiveness is not for the other person, forgiveness is for you.
~ Bill Ferguson
A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Who's going to feel sorry for him? You know they're illegal, whether it was two years ago or five years ago. You shouldn't do it. All you can do is ask for forgiveness.
~ Unknown
Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
~ Unknown
In whatever way I may have insulted You in jokes; while playing, reposing in bed, sitting, or at meals; when alone, or in front of others; O Krishna, I implore You for forgiveness.
~ Bhagavad Gita
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
~ bell hooks
Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.
~ Mary McCarthy
Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.
~ Christina Baldwin
Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
~ Betty Smith
He said: I will ask for you forgiveness from my Lord; surely He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.
~ Unknown