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Quotes About Compassion

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
~ Stendhal
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
~ John Cage
Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!
~ Tony Robbins
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
~ Howard Zinn
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.
~ James McAvoy
I'm a lover not a fighter.
~ Michael Jackson
Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.
~ Agnes Macphail
Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.
~ Arundhati Roy
I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.
~ Tom Hanks
The price of love is only love, ... one must love if one desires to be loved.
~ Honore d'Urfe
"And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death.
~ Terry Pratchett
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
~ Anton Chekhov
Loving a person is loving everything but the person. Being in love with that person is loving everything and that person.
~ Denise Richards
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
~ Willam Law
Love gives without taking
~ Erica Jong
I really loved Kelsey [Grammer]. It wasn't a romantic love, but there was something about him. It's very difficult to see someone you care about having a hard time.
~ Bebe Neuwirth
Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
~ Tamora Pierce
She could forgive him for missing their dinner date, but she would never forgive him for dying.
~ Chrys Fey, 30 Seconds
It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
~ Che Guevara
On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .
~ Mother Teresa
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. . . . My heart is sick and sad. . . . I will fight no more forever.
~ Chief Joseph