Quotes About Compassion

You May Be One Person To The World But You May Be The World To One Person.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

They are wrong who say that love is blind. On the contrary, nothing - not even the smallest detail - escapes the eyes; one sees everything in the loved one, notices everything; but melts it all into one flame with the great and simple: I love you.

Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Do all things with love.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Before we can ever learn to love one another as we would hope to do, we must first be willing to see that for too long we have loved only ourselves . . . and that even this has been done poorly.

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle... (or) Einstein's Theory of Relativity ... (or) the Second Theory of Thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment

Get beyond love and grief; exist for the good of man