Quotes about Compassion
May I be, this day, an instrument of love and healing.
— Marianne Williamson
But peace isn't determined by circumstances outside us. Peace stems from forgiveness. Pain doesn't stem from the love we're denied by others, but rather from the love that we deny them.
— Marianne Williamson
When we're willing to see the innocence in another person even when he or she has behaved without love toward us, we activate the Law of Divine Compensation.
— Marianne Williamson
It is an act of gracious generosity to accept a person based on what we know to be the truth about them, regardless of whether or not they are in touch with that truth themselves.
— Marianne Williamson
If they treat us with fear, we are to see their behavior as a call for love.
— Marianne Williamson
But remember, there's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves.
— Marianne Williamson
The only real problem is a lack of love. To address the world's problems on any other level is a temporary palliative—a fix but not a healing, a treatment of the symptom but not a cure.
— Marianne Williamson
There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
— Marianne Williamson
It's easy to forgive people who have never done anything to make us angry. People who do make us angry, however, are our most important teachers. They indicate the limits to our capacity for forgiveness.
— Marianne Williamson
A belief in separation is always at the root of a problem, and a realization of our oneness is always at the root of its solution.
— Marianne Williamson
There is a plan for each of us, and each of us is precious. As we open our hearts more and more, we're moved in the directions in which we're supposed to go.
— Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
— Marianne Williamson