Compassion Quote by Taylor Jenkins Reid

“Relationships can be happy with low levels of love and high levels of compassion, but not the other way around.”

— Steven Stosny

“It is hard to draw any line between compassion and love.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“When you like someone, you have to allow yourself to be vulnerable enough to let them in. Love is messy.”

— Jocelyn Davies

Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

“Self-compassion embraces imperfection with love, providing the fertile soil needed for romance to truly flourish.”

— Kristin Neff

“A relationship is about appreciating the good, the bad, and the ugly. No one is perfect.”

— Penelope Ward

“Love isn't always clean and pretty--sometimes it's messy, cruel, and confusing. And sometimes, it doesn't turn out the way you want it to. But…

— Heather Lyons

“The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Love without compassion is possessive, controlling, rejecting, and dangerous.”

— Steven Stosny

“There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways.”

— George Orwell

“...love is deep attention, deep compassion...”

— Orhan Pamuk