Quotes About Compassion

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."

Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.

I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.

Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you."

Be it in the garden, the nursery or the bedroom, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

Do not be someone looking for [insert]. Be [insert] looking for someone. Suggestions for [insert]: —love —friendship —understanding —appreciation —tolerance —a helping hand —a leg up —an answer

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.

'Twas a thief said the last kind word to Christ:Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.

It is only when we start understanding on an emotional level, on a gut level, that we were powerless to do anything any differently than we did that we can Truly start to Love ourselves.