Quotes About Compassion

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

The good man is the friend of all living things

The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attentionÃ. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Be a friend to thyself and others will too

There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

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

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thought unexpressed- that can make this life a garden.

Be kind to thy sister. Not many may know the depths of true sisterly love.

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

It's easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Give one thousand chance to your enemy to become your friend but do not give one chance to your friend to become your enemy.

If you really want to know who is with you don't look around just close your eyes and look inside of heart.