Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men
Confucius
You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening
Sara Paddison
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope
Ursula K. Le Guin
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water
Maya Angelou
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men
Saint Francis of Assisi
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics
Albert Schweitzer
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion
Simone De Beauvoir
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope
Ursula K. Le Guin
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive
Dalai Lama
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves
Mason Cooley
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little
Buddha
True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
Joseph Addison
Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer