Quotes about Compassionate Understanding
True love includes a sense of responsibility and accepting the other person as she is, with all her strengths and weaknesses. If you only like the best things in a person, that is not love.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
In fact, father and mother are two aspects of the same reality. Father is more expressive side of wisdom or understanding, and mother the side of love or compassion...Without understanding there cannot be true love, and without love there cannot be understanding
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. We must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the person we love. This is the ground of real love. You cannot resist loving another person when you really understand him or her.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
— Thomas a Kempis
If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
— Bruce Lee
Forget about deciding what's right for each other. Here's what you need to be concerned about: that you don't get in the way of someone else, making life more difficult than it already is. I'm convinced—Jesus convinced me!—that everything as it is in itself is holy. We, of course, by the way we treat it or talk about it, can contaminate it.
— Eugene Peterson
This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.
— Pope Francis
I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
— Alice Walker
Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend
— Paulo Coelho
Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.
— Pope Francis
Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.
— Paulo Coelho