Quotes about Compassion
While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight, I'll fight to the very end!
— William Booth
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.
— Anonymous
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.
— Anonymous
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand... but touches your heart.
— Anonymous
Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)...to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
— Winnie the Pooh
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle... (or) Einstein's Theory of Relativity ... (or) the Second Theory of Thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people
— Vincent Van Gogh
The giving of love is an education in itself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I know of only one duty, and that is to love
— Albert Camus
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
— James Allen