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Quotes About Compassion

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
~ Theophrastus
Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.
~ Hillel the Elder
A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
~ Jackson Pollock
A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.
~ Lauren Conrad
The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.
~ David Storey
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
~ Edna Buchanan
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
~ Aristotle
To me, friendship means loving tolerance.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Share love. Share time. Share friendship. Just share. Put some love into everything you do.
~ Yehuda Berg
Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.
~ Pythagoras
I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.
~ Jackson Browne
I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.
~ E. B. White
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
~ James Russell Lowell
Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.
~ Janette Oke
A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.
~ William Arthur Ward
It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.
~ Voltaire
I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
~ Michel de Montaigne
Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
~ Joy Harjo
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
~ Sophocles
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
~ Gloria Naylor
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.
~ Unknown
A friend in need is a friend indeed!
~ Benjamin Franklin