Quotes About Compassion

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

A friend is known when needed.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

The sense that someone else cares always helps, because it is the sense of love

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand... but touches your heart.

Let your best be for your friend...

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)...to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

Love is liking someone better than you like yourself.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly.

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.