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Quotes About Compassion

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.
~ Mother Teresa
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.
~ Adel Bestavros
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
~ Bible
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
~ Herman Hesse
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
~ Sam Walter Foss
That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.
~ Charles Bukowski
It was from an old friend who ¦ thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.
~ Charles Grodin
I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
~ William Cowper
Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
~ Seneca
We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.
~ Unknown
Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.
~ Unknown
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
~ Krzysztof Kieslowski
Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
~ Bible
God is love - I dare say
~ Unknown
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
~ Marie Dressler
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
~ Unknown
My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.
~ Unknown
Love is the only weapon we need.
~ Dylan Thomas
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
~ Fred Rogers
If you cant find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.
~ Ashley Young
It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable
~ Ashley Montagu
All things are in common among friends.
~ Laertius Diogenes
Sometimes we see things not as they are but as we are: Love brings understanding
~ John Dryden
Beloved, let us love one another (1 John 4:7).
~ Bible