Quotes about Compassion

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

Man must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just the beginning.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?

Hope does not deny the evil, but is a response to it.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.