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Quotes About Compassion

If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.
~ Cyndi Lauper
Volunteers are caring friends
~ Don Williams
A real friend ... exults in his friendÂ's happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
~ Herodotus
Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.
~ Rebecca Wells
Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.
~ Anna Quindlen
Friendship means to be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need.
~ Hugh Black
Friendship is such a powerful healer and source of support.
~ Bonnie St. John
Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart.
~ Unknown
Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.
~ Jo Coudert
The fun is having friends who help each other get free.
~ Ram Dass
Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
~ Dalai Lama
And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.
~ Shannon Hale, Enna Burning
I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.
~ Leonard Cohen
If you are a guild, take care of your friends. That is all I have to say.
~ Hiro Mashima
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
~ Publilius Syrus
A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.
~ Sophie Irene Loeb
I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.
~ Ethel M. Dell
Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.
~ Mark Kingwell
That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
~ Ambrose Bierce
Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.
~ Orson Scott Card
You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?
~ Sarah McLachlan
I'll be your crying shoulder.
~ Edwin McCain
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.
~ Nelson Mandela