Quotes About Compassion

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live -- there is no greater lover than this.

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Where there is love there is no sin.

Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Love is not a force between a mind and a body, but a force between two hearts. Your mind and eyes will never tell you when you feel true love, for only your heart can recieve the true love that another heart sends directly to it.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness