Quotes About Compassion

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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

Non nobis solum nati sumus. ( Not for ourselves alone are we born. )

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

And the King smiled down upon his little dark wife who could so wholeheartedly admire another woman.

One does not analyse a person one loves. One just loves them as they are.

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.

strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

I've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, "I'm beautiful because I love everybody as much as I can. I'm beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And I'm beautiful because I say I am. I've earned it, and I'm gonna be it.

To join the others was to care, and to care was to live and to suffer.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

Kindness is stronger than iron bars.

We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.

The spiritual director has the double task of holding up the demands of absolute responsibility and the promise of absolute forgiveness.