Quotes About Compassion

The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.

To love someone is to desire their happiness. [Richelle Bach]

takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

The measure of love isn't how much you want someone. It's revealed in what you want for them.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime.

As appreciative as I had already been for their kindness, now I was astounded. In the midst of such heartbreak, this good couple had reached out to me in my pain. For the first time in a long while, I felt hope in humanity.

We tend to demonize those we inflict pain on. It lessens our guilt.

There are two ways of being strong: one is pushing people down, the other is pulling people up.

La seule chose qui soit pire que la mort, c'est d'assister à celle des gens qu'on aime.

Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest. Zeke

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault - it just sees beyond it as well.

Ódio, ressentimento e raiva são parasitas que se alimentam do coração até que não haja nada para nutrir o amor." A Promessa.

To open the book of another's life requires great care, as the pages must be turned with delicacy and caution -- but it is usually worth the effort.

She didn't want to eat, but I insisted. She had already

It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts

People always say that no matter how awful things are, there's always someone suffering more. It's true. It's not really helpful, but it's true.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. —CHARLES JAMES'S DIARY

between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.' " She looked up.

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault—it just sees beyond it as well. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness – sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

I found myself changing into the very thing I hated. That's what hate does—it remakes us in its image.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

You darling, sweet man. I'm so sorry for your pain. I wish I could have taken it from you. But you've carried it long enough. You need to let it go.