Compassion Quotes

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." "You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics." "Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other" "When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul." "The measure of love is to love without measure" "What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like" "Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself" "Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no further purpose" "When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees and some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever, and you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it, you just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are." "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone the courage to make tough decisions and the compassion to listen to the needs of others" "To understand is to forgive" "Our job is not to judge" "Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again " "It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own" "The only way to have a friend is to be one "