Quotes about Compassion
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
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
— Mother Teresa