Quotes about Compassion

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another's burdens; for no man is without fault, no man without his burden, no man sufficient of himself, no man wise enough of himself; but we ought to bear with one another, comfort one another, help, instruct, and admonish one another.

Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for the measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity — adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

At the least, bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully. And although thou be very unwilling to hear it, and feel indignation, yet check thyself, and suffer no unadvised word to come forth from thy lips, whereby the little ones may be offended. Soon the storm which hath been raised shall be stilled, and inward grief shall be sweetened by returning grace.

Whoever loves much, does much...

Nothing will hinder you more than thinking only about yourself.

Quickly enough we feel and reckon up what we bear at the hands of others, but we reflect not how much others are bearing from us.