Quotes about Compassion
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
— Maya Angelou
If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The self-righteous never apologize.
— Leonard Ravenhill
There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.
— Charles Dickens
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
— Seneca
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
— Henri Nouwen
One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a life time.
— Dale Carnegie
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
— Viktor E. Frankl
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
— Vincent Van Gogh