Quotes About Compassion

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend — to tell you you did all you could.

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."

It is a lifelong battle to try to love someone through the chinks in their armor.

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.