Quotes About Compassion

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

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 only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

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 only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is an attitude.

Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

you constantly think, 'If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better.' They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

Violence is not the answer, it doesn't work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things." ~ Martin Scorsese

We all have to live by our own lights, love, do what we can.

Catholic guilt was the most destructive sort of guilt because the person that it concerned had no real concept of it. They didn't even realise that it existed. Catholic guilt was something that grew alongside the person, alongside their personality and, in many ways, it did them some good. They felt the need to help the less fortunate, and they felt the urge to make their children better than they were.

He healeth those that are broken in heart: and giveth medicine to heal their sickness. 147:1 Prayer Book , 1662

But she wanted her mother to know that she did love her. All day, every day, she loved her.

Without a second thought, without anything except their own need to give.