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Quotes About Compassion

Why can't we all just get along?
~ Rodney King
Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.
~ Oprah Winfrey
If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.
~ Yehuda Berg
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
~ Elon Musk
If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.
~ Miroslav Volf
One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.
~ Stephen Covey
Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.
~ Lisa Ling
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Finding fault in others, just for the sake of finding fault, we will pollute our own minds.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.
~ Virginia C. Andrews
Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.
~ Rick Warren
The relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you'll ever have.
~ Judith Orloff
People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
~ Laura Linney
Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.
~ George H. W. Bush
When we understand our relationship to God, we also understand our relationship to one another.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.
~ Parker J. Palmer
Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.
~ Eknath Easwaran
To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
~ Deepak Chopra
After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
~ Bertha von Suttner
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
~ Desmond Tutu
It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.
~ Kristin Chenoweth