Quotes About Compassion

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.

We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing...not healing, not curing...that is a friend who cares.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

The hardest Thing in friendship is when your friend is in love with a person that you love.

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