Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn’t do this out of compassion or guilt. It’s done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.

There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and it has weakened me. But no more. Tonight I will once again feast on fear and suffering. My appetite for agony will be awakened. I will once again taste the pain of others. I will feast on the fear of the innocent, and that is the sweetest taste of all. Tonight I hunger for a sacrifice.

Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.

Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers

Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy

Lead from a place of compassion and forgiveness.

When love is the trend, there is no room for violence and war.

You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time.

To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.

We will not just say, “I love him very much,” but instead, “I will do something so that he will suffer less.” The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person’s suffering.

Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, …awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. If we get in touch with the suffering of the world, and are moved by that suffering, we may come forward to help the people who are suffering

Compassion is a verb

Our immigration policy should be based in compassion and a desire to help the other

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

Mother Teresa’s numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Do not heal in isolation. Connecting with others is how we develop compassion for others and for ourselves.

May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul.

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

There are two kinds of compassion. The first comes from a natural concern for friends and family who are close to us. This has limited range but can be the seed for something bigger. We can also learn to extend a genuine concern for others’ well-being, whoever they are. That is real compassion, and only human beings are capable of developing it.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result, you feel peaceful and content.

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

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs, or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

That’s home. That’s us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite; Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage; But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.

Death—and a violent death—for these poor unfortunates! The thought wrung Tom’s heart-strings. The spirit of compassion took control of him, to the exclusion of all other considerations; he never thought of the offended laws, or of the grief or loss which these three criminals had inflicted upon their victims, he could think of nothing but the scaffold and the grisly fate hanging over the heads of the condemned. His concern made him even forget, for the moment, that he was but the false shadow of a king, not the substance.

It’s important in life if you don’t give a shit. It can help you a lot.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

You may deal with things without love; you may cut down trees, make bricks, hammer iron without love, but you cannot deal with men without it, just as you cannot deal with bees without being careful.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

I am large, I contain multitudes.

My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do, And he said , You never know what you can accomplish until you try.

Love the earth and sun and animals. Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.