Quotes about Compassion

We tend to demonize those we inflict pain on. It lessens our guilt.

There are two ways of being strong: one is pushing people down, the other is pulling people up.

Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances.

Life's book is written on the heart.

Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest. Zeke

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault - it just sees beyond it as well.

To open the book of another's life requires great care, as the pages must be turned with delicacy and caution -- but it is usually worth the effort.

It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts

People always say that no matter how awful things are, there's always someone suffering more. It's true. It's not really helpful, but it's true.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others.

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault—it just sees beyond it as well. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness — sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.