Compassion

Each of us has only a quantum of compassion ... if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things. - John le Carre

Great compassion is the root of all spiritual paths, and of all Superior beings. - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Grief for the calamity of another is pity, and arises from the imagination that the like calamity may befall himself; and, therefore, it is called compassion, or in the phrase of the present time a fellow-feeling. - Thomas Hobbbes

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. - Karen Armstrong

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

It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts. - Steve Maraboli

Let our compassion express itself in efforts to bring the erring back to sacred principles, and if they persist, let us pity them the more for a blindness so fatal to themselves. - S. E. D. Charnage

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

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

Pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. - George Eliot