Compassion is the basis of all morality
Arthur Schopenhauer
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others,whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham J. Heschel
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism
Hubert H. Humphrey
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also
Thomas Browne, Sr.
No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself
Muhammad
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
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
We often think of peace as the absence of war; that if the powerful countries would reduce their arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds - our prejudices, fears, and ignorance. Even if we transported all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the reasons for bombs would still be here, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we would make new bombs. Seek to become more aware of what causes anger and separation, and what overcomes them. Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully
Thich Nhat Hanh
Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
Betty Williams
The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.
Unknown
It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.
Dalai Lama
Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.
Dalai Lama
World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.
Dalai Lama
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
Henry Ward Beecher
The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.
William M. Kucmierowski