To develop true compassion, first we must know that suffering is real, and that sufferings hurt.
Thupten Rinpoche
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
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
Pema Chodron
We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
the Dalai Lama
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation for such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
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.
the Dalai Lama
A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature.
Albert Einstein
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past all the pairs of opposites you have reached compassion.
Joseph Campbell
Education is much more than a matter of imparting the knowledge and skills by which narrow goals are achieved. It is also about opening the child’s eyes to the needs and rights of others.
the Dalai Lama
Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own?
Gary Zukav
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without his thumb on the scale.
Byron Langfeld
