"Out of compassion I destroy
the darkness of their ignorance.
From within them I light the
lamp of wisdom and dispel
all darkness from their lives."
-Bhagavad Gita

"There is nothing heavier than compassion.
Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy
as the pain one feels with someone,
for someone...
a pain intensified by the imagination
and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
-Milan Kundera

"Until he extends his circle of compassion
to include all living things,
man will not himself find peace."
-Albert Schweitzer

"The value of compassion
cannot be over-emphasized.
Anyone can criticize.
It takes a true believer
to be compassionate.
No greater burden can be borne
by an individual than to know
no one cares or understands."
-Arthur H. Stainback

"Compassion automatically
invites you to relate with people
because you no longer regard people
as a drain on your energy."
-Chogyam Trungpa

"Some people think only intellect counts:
knowing how to solve problems,
knowing how to get by,
knowing how to identify
an advantage and seize it.
But the functions of intellect
are insufficient without courage, love,
friendship, compassion and empathy."
-Dean Koontz

"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

"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul:
where there is compassion even the most
poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."
-Eric Hoffer

"I feel the capacity to care
is the thing which gives
life its deepest significance."
-Pablo Casals

"The purpose of human life is to serve and
to show compassion and the will to help others."
-Albert Schweitzer

"Mama was my greatest teacher,
a teacher of compassion,
love and fearlessness.
If love is sweet as a flower,
then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
-Stevie Wonder