Quotes about Compassion

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

Be it in the garden, the nursery or the bedroom, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand.

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

What a spineless thing I must be not to have even one enemy!

Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.

Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we, Anne? I want to know. It's pretty safe ain't it?

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves.

Can I help you? said Jane. Though Jane herself had no inkling of it, those words were the keynote of her character. Any one else would probably have said, What is the matter? But Jane always wanted to help: and, though she was too young to realize it, the tragedy of her little existence was that nobody ever wanted her help.