Quotes About Compassion

Knowing, loving, and respecting yourself is an absolute prerequisite to knowing, loving, and respecting someone else.

The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.

One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.

A final note about love: One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

I am so sorry that I hurt you. I know I'll make many more mistakes as time goes on, but I'll try not to make that one again.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

I'm not scared any more,' said Midge. 'Thank you, Kevin. Sometimes you can be very kind.' 'Yes,' said Kevin. 'And if you tell that to any of the other trolls I will pull off your nose and feed it to a bear.

I know a lot of things about you, Garth...And I'm rooting for you anyways.

Love is in the acts, not in the feels.

To be numb to another's pain—to be acculturated to violence—is arguably one of the worst consequences our technological advances have wrought.

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

Eisenhower started his presidency on this same note, with a plea to avoid what he called the "burden of arms. . . . Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

A man's religion and love life were nobody else's concern so long as neither of them gouged out some innocent bystander's eyes.

To know a mature woman is to know more than her body. It is to know her dreams and her secrets. It is to know that a dance is a fight, and a fight is a dance, and that passion and compassion beat in the same breast.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.

Make coffee, not war,

He says we've evolved to be selfish, cruel, and horrible in every way. But we've also evolved to be compassionate, loving, loyal, and amazing in every way." "Right,

Bring us together. Instead of turning us into their puppets, they'll teach us how to tame our destructive impulses, the demons of our nature, as they learned to do.

Hall shook his head. "Humanity," he said sadly. "Sometimes it's really hard to be a fan.

the idea of six thousand innocents being annihilated in this way was devastating,