Quotes About Compassion

You never truly get mad at someone you love. You get disappointed.

If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug, which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.

Instead of fighting with your girl and being upset, put yourself in their shoes. There might just be more to the story that you don't know.

Being upset is no reason for a man to put his hands on you.

There's nothing worse than seeing your friends upset and not being able to do a thing to help them.

No matter how much a friend has upset you, you should talk to them and sort things out, life is too short to be angry over trivial things.

Being crazy doesn't annoy others that understand it, it annoys only the ones unwilling to try and understand.

Be soft, don't let the world make you hard. Be gentle, don't let the people make you difficult. Be kind, don't let the realities of life steal your sweetness and make you heartless.

In the end, you'll know who really loves you. They're the one who see you for who you are and no matter what always find a way to be at your side.

Being a good person does not depend on your religion, status, race, color, political views or culture. It depends on how you treat others.

Whoever you are, that doesn't matter because I already love the way you are.

A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow.

True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be

the purpose of life now appeared to me as the pursuit not of truth but of loving-kindness, and

Physical love, so unfairly disparaged, compels people to manifest the very smallest particles they possess of goodness, of self-abnegation, so much so that these particles glow even in the eyes of those immediately surrounding them.

Then, at last, we understood that the sort of terror in which Françoise had lived of my aunt's harsh words, her suspicions and her anger, had developed in her a sentiment which we had mistaken for hatred, and which was really veneration and love.

In short, my aunt stipulated, at one and the same time, that whoever came to see her must approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of an ultimate recovery

A stranger leaves us indifferent, and indifference does not prompt us to unkind actions.

Em suma, minha tia exigia, ao mesmo tempo em que a aprovassem em seu regime, que a lamentassem por seus padecimentos e que a tranquilizassem quanto ao futuro.

I did not believe what he was saying, but I bore him no ill-will for that, for I had inherited from my mother and grandmother their incapacity for resentment even of far worse offenders, and their habit of never condemning anyone

But, as my sister says, 'there must always be poor people so that now that I'm rich I can shit on them.

opted in favour of simplicity, the arts, and magnanimity

Monsieur, there are people who keep nothing of their life for themselves, not one minute, not one pleasure, the whole thing is a sacrifice for others, they are lives that are given away.

Robert, I'm surprised that a man of your intelligence should fail to understand that one doesn't discuss the things that will give one's friends pleasure; one does them.