Quotes About Compassion

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

I, first of all, felt a great sense of loss, a sense of condolence for the friends that I had that were killed in that, for the loved ones.

There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.

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

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.

People say friends don't destroy each otherWhat do they know about friends?

When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.