Quotes About Compassion

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?

When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?

A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

To love is natural. To understand the variations of love is wisdom.

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them.

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much. Daphne Rose Kingma Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

There is but one genuine love-potion - consideration.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

True love is the parent of humility

We need not think alike to love alike.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.