Quotes about Compassion

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength

Doing well is a result of doing good.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar

You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong

I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

The love that you withhold is the pain you carry.

Learn how to carry a friendship greatly, whether or not it is returned. Why should one regret if the receiver is not equally generous? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. If he is unequal, he will presently pass away; but thou art enlarged by thy own shining.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

Treat all people as if they are real, because who knows, perhaps they are.