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Hope And Compassion Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Joseph Jacobs

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Unknown

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Healing

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Tori Amos

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates

The greatest healing therapy is forgiveness.
Anonymous

Healing is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.
W.H. Auden

The greatest healing therapy is laughter.
Anonymous

Healing is a matter of the heart, soul, and spirit.
Anonymous

The greatest healing therapy is love and kindness.
Anonymous

Healing is a journey, not a destination.
Anonymous

The greatest healing therapy is gratitude.
Anonymous

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Resilience

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.
Ernest Hemingway

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Optimism

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Hope is a powerful force. It can make us feel more alive, more engaged, and more resilient in the face of adversity.
Shawn Achor

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles

Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement.
Unknown

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Suzanne Collins

Hope is the thing that holds you to the light when the darkness has robbed you of all your sight.
Unknown

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Strength

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
Maya Angelou

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Courage

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
G.K. Chesterton

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hope is the thing that holds you tight, when all else has faded away.
Jenny Nimmo

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Perseverance

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.
Pema Chödrön

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich

Perseverance is not a personality trait. It's a habit that can be developed through practice.
Angela Duckworth

Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity.
Arthur Jersild

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Kindness

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

We rise by lifting others.
Robert Ingersoll

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and compassion.
Debasish Mridha

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi

Compassion and kindness are the ultimate acts of self-reflection.
Lorii Myers

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama XIV

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Empathy

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler

Empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Brené Brown

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
Eric Zorn

Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you're not alone.
Brené Brown

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
Neil Gaiman

Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.

Empathy is the bridge that connects us to other people, and it's what makes us fully human.
Roman Krznaric

Empathy is the key that unlocks the door to understanding and compassion.
Unknown

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Love

Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your love and compassion.
Unknown

Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Rumi

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E.E. Cummings

Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world.
Steve Maraboli

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Community

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Coretta Scott King

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden

The only way to change the world is to change the story.
Michael Margolis

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Cesar Chavez

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
Gwendolyn Brooks

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Generosity

No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Understanding

The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding. It's a rare gift that encourages them to be themselves and to feel safe enough to express their feelings and thoughts.
Unknown

Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald Reagan

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Unity

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Kofi Annan

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J.K. Rowling

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
Bill Clinton

We are not separate from each other, and when we realize this, compassion is born.
Thich Nhat Hanh

We are all in this together and we are going to get through it together.
Kamala Harris

We are only as blind as we want to be.
Maya Angelou

We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity, life would be very boring.
Catherine Pulsifer

We are all one, only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.
Anonymous

We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same.
C. JoyBell C.

Hope And Compassion Quotes About Faith

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
Max Lucado

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller

Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.
C.S. Lewis

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.
William Newton Clarke

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1

Faith is the light that guides you through the darkness.
Unknown

Faith is the foundation of hope; hope is the expectation of faith.
Unknown

Faith is the key that unlocks the door to all the blessings of God.
Unknown

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