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Quotes About Compassion

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.
~ Frederick William Faber
Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
~ Rich Mullins
Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all
~ Whitney Houston
All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.
~ Leonard Carmichael
The ultimate lesson is learning how to love and be loved unconditionally
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.
~ Adrienne von Speyr
Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.
~ Geneen Roth
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
~ Edmund Wilson
If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.
~ Yoko Ono
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
~ W. H. Auden
The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
~ Melody Beattie
The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.
~ Doris Janzen Longacre
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.
~ Pema Chodron
It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
~ Aldous Huxley
And learn the luxury of doing good.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
~ Mark Twain
You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.
~ Akeem Ayers
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
~ George Eliot
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
~ Jesse Jackson
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
~ Abraham Lincoln
To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships.
~ Harshit Walia
Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
~ Albert Einstein
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.
~ Milton S. Hershey