Quotes About Compassion

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

We all mold one another's dreams. We all hold each other's fragile hopes in our hands. We all touch others' hearts.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

The things that people in love do to each other they remember, and if they stay together it?s not because they forget, it's because they forgive.

When the satisfaction or security of another person becomes as important to one as one's own, then a state of love exists.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,but have not love, I gain nothing. -Corinthians 13:1

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.

It is possible to love your friends, your competitors, and even your enemies. It is hard, bitterly hard, but there is a long distance between hard and impossible.

Love expands.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Ultimately love is everything.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

...the more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule

T the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; nor how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

Be loving and the love in your life will increase.

What the heart gives away is never gone ... It is kept in the hearts of others.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word ''Love.'' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.