#compassion

"Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory."

"Other people are only aspects of our own greater being."

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

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."

"Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species."

"Even if toxic people are right about what is "good,"they are wrong if the approach is not healthy."

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

"Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you."

"The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)"

"Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man."

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."

"When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek."

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

"Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care."

"There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart."

"Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps."

"Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts."

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

"In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;"and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them."

"The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings."