Compassion Quotes

"You don’t have to be perfect to help people. All you have to be is real."

- Trent Shelton

"Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage."

- Susan Sontag

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

- Dr. Seuss

"Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome."

- Amelia Barr

"A candle is a small thing. But one candle can light another. And see how its own light increases, as a candle gives its flame to the other. You are such a light."

- Moshe Davis

"This time of year means being kind to everyone we meet, to share a smile with strangers we may pass along the street."

- Betty Black

"Yoga teaches us that we can have whatever we may want in life if we are willing to provide it for others first."

- Sharon Gannon

"And speak to people good words."

- Quran 2:83

"The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing."

- Jennifer L. Armentrout

"The finest memories are those where we have helped someone without expecting anything in return."

- Byron Pulsifer

"My mercy encompasses all things"

- Quran

"And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion."

- Quran

"Do what is beautiful. Allah loves those who do what is beautiful"

- Quran

"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses."

- David Storey

"Don’t think that there’s a different, better child “hiding” behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child. You may have to work harder on some of this, but that’s the goal."

- Claire Scovell LaZebnik

"Do not fear people with autism; embrace them. Do not spite people with autism; unite them. Do not deny people with autism; accept them, for then their abilities will shine."

- Paul Issacs

"When a family focuses on ability instead of the disability, all things are possible… Love and acceptance is key."

- Amanda Rae Ross

"We cry, we scream, we hit out and break things. But still, we don’t want you to give up on us. Please, keep battling alongside us."

- Naoki Higashida

"Repel evil with that which is better."

"Indeed, the mercy of Allah is near to the doers of good."

"Take what is given freely, enjoin what is good, and turn away from the ignorant."

"And do good as Allah has done good to you."

"And do not make difficulties for them in order to take [back] part of what you gave them unless they commit a clear immorality. And live with them in kindness."

"And do not turn your cheek [in contempt] toward people and do not walk through the earth exultantly. Indeed, Allah does not like everyone self-deluded and boastful. And be moderate in your pace and lower your voice; indeed, the most disagreeable of sounds is the voice of donkeys."

"O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people; perhaps they may be better than them; nor let women ridicule [other] women; perhaps they may be better than them. And do not insult one another and do not call each other by [offensive] nicknames. Wretched is the name of disobedience after [one’s] faith. And whoever does not repent – then it is those who are the wrongdoers."

"woe to those who give less [and]…take in full"

"My mercy encompasses all things, I will specify it for those who act righteously and practice regular charity, and those who believe in Our signs."

- Unknown

"A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden."

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."