Quotes About Compassion

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.

You don't need to be a star to be a bright and shining one to that friend in need.

Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.

Forgiveness is the only way to heal

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.

Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.