Quotes about Compassion
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
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
— Seneca
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
— Brigham Young
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
— Elbert Hubbard
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
— Dale Carnegie
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
— Abraham Lincoln
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
— Henri Nouwen
A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.
— Henri Nouwen