Quotes about Compassion

You can push all that past aside if you want to, but until you understand where people around here came from and why they think the way they do, you won't be able to help them get beyond it. You can't just whisk a magic wand and make the past disappear or rewrite it because you don't like it. You'll never change the present if you do that. You have to learn from what's gone on and work hard if you want to make the future better.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

It's never too late. We've come around to a better way of life with showing love and giving love. That's what matters.

It just goes to show you that the "R" and the "D" are meaningless - what really matters is whether someone believes in the spirit and unending compassion of the individual, or instead in the destructive power of the collective.

Peace comes with forgiveness. And sometimes forgiveness must be earned—not from other men, but from our own hearts and spirits.

I believed that was the point of real forgiveness: It was freely given. Grace-filled. Unsolicited.

Someone once told me that everyone deserved to be loved. Even the unlovable? Maybe especially them.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.