Quotes About Compassion

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.

It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

Two in distressmake sorrow less.

Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.

If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.