Quotes About Compassion

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

See the good in people and help them.

The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.