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Quotes About Compassion

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
~ Unknown
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
~ Thomas Merton
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.
~ Barbara Johnson
The first duty of love is to listen.
~ Paul Tillich
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
~ Unknown
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
When you love you give meaning to this world.
~ Sorin Cerin
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
~ Maya Angelou
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
~ Peter Ustinov
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
~ Unknown
Loving your enemies does not mean you have to agree with or accept what they do. You can still love all of mankind and be outspoken for what you believe.
~ Unknown
There is only one terminal dignity - love.
~ Helen Hayes
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
~ Euripides
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
~ Unknown
Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is lo
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
~ Buddha
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
~ Rollo May
Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.
~ William Blake
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]
~ Bible
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
~ Mother Teresa
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. - Maker of the Simpsons
~ Matt Groening