Compassion Quotes

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Hugs can do great amounts of good — especially for children.

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.
Pam Brown

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
Herodotus

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
King Solomon

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
Graham Greene

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Marianne Williamson

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing "Maria" from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
Adam Sandler

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Jose Marti

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim Elliot

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
Jerry Seinfeld

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.
John Quincy Adams

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
Francis of Assisi

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
Meryl Streep

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Barry Goldwater

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
Martin Lawrence