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Quotes About Compassion

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
~ William Shakespeare
We can only learn to love by loving.
~ Iris Murdoch
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling (1 Peter 4:8-9).
~ Bible
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
~ Unknown
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
~ Unknown
The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence
~ Bertrand Russell
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee
~ Unknown
I love you when I forget about me.
~ Joni Mitchell
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
~ Pablo Casals
Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps who went about continually doing good.
~ James hamilton
All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.
~ Rita Hayworth
Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
~ Swami Sivananda
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
~ Unknown
The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
I may not be a smart man but I know what love is
~ Teilhard de Chardin
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
~ Ethel Barrymore
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
~ Marilyn Manson
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love
~ Buddha
A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
~ William Shakespeare
We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The only way to have a friend is to be one
~ Ralph Waldo Emmerson