logo

Quotes About Compassion

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~ Unknown
Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones-the ones at home.
~ Unknown
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
~ Unknown
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.
~ Unknown
If you wish to be loved, love
~ Seneca
The aim of love is to love: no more, and no less.
~ Oscar Wilde
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix
To love a thing means wanting it to live
~ Confucius
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
~ Unknown
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
~ Unknown
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
~ Unknown
Intense love does not measure; it just gives
~ Unknown
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third
~ Marge Piercy
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Love is the essence of human experience and emotion. It is at the root of all and everything we, as humans, do. Without love, what do we have to live for?
~ Robert Muller
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.
~ George Sand