Quotes About Compassion

Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

Ive learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.

Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in.

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite

At different states in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at the heart, the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle

Love builds up the broken wall and straigtens the crooked path. love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on te ocean tides each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge, or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.