Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer 
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
We receive this food in gratitude to all beings
Who have helped to bring it to our table,
And vow to respond in turn to those in need
With wisdom and compassion.
- Buddhist Blessing
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
The vast Cathedral of Your Being
becomes sanctuary for all creation
as you celebrate the universal sacraments
of compassion and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
Recall a recent time when someone was strongly critical
of your opinions (perhaps your political or religious beliefs).
Now, put yourself in their shoes - with compassion.
Try to understand and appreciate their point-of-view -
not to change your own opinions,
but to celebrate all our human differences - in peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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 Chodron
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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