Compassion Quotes

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there" "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." "The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain." "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." "I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness." "I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering." "People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway." "If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one." "Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family." "One of the realities we’re all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment." "Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier." "Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand." "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about" "It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving." "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." "Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." "Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." "Peace begins with a smile." "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." "I promise you there is something worse out there than being sad, and that's being alone and being sad. Ain't no one in this room alone."