Quotes About Compassion

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.

A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.

Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.

Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.

A friend worth your tears, will never make you cry.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

I didn't always have friends so I am careful to take care of them.

If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.

If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Make friendship a fine art.

Nicole was always there with her door open, her arms open, her ears open - just what you need.

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.

We can only accept friendship from others to the degree that we give it to ourselves.