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• Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest human and divine energies.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Compassion

• Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference — in our own lives and those of others.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Topics in Kindness, Love

  Tags in Compassion

• The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

  Tenzin Gyatso

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Compassion

• A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

  Tenzin Gyatso

  Topics in Humanity, Religion

  Tags in Compassion, Human Rights

• Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

  Karen Armstrong

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Compassion, Diversity

• To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one’s own, is ever the beginning of one’s real ethical development.

  Felix Adler

  Topics in Service

  Tags in Ethics, Problem Solving, Compassion

• All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

  Peter Albert David Singer

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Compassion

• Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it’s uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing — resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.

  Joanna Rogers Macy

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Compassion