Quotes about Compassion
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
— Mother Teresa
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
— Arthur Ashe
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
— Anais Nin
The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him
— CS Lewis
Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?
— Dag Hammarskjold
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship
— Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world
— Eleanor Roosevelt