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Quotes About Compassion

Each heart holds the secret: 'Kindness' is the word.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.
~ Len Goodman
Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.
~ Tom Baker
Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.
~ David Samuels
Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.
~ Aeschylus
Kindness will always attract kindness.
~ Sophocles
Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.
~ Mother Teresa
First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
~ Brene Brown
What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
~ William Law
Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.
~ Suzy Kassem
A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.
~ Mike Dolan
It's much easier to be cruel than one might think.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.
~ Nhat Hanh
If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.
~ Julian Assange
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.
~ Samuel Johnson
the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.
~ Karen White
I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.
~ Deb Caletti
Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.
~ Anthony D. Williams