When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.
Marshall Rosenberg
It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierceactions that can really make a difference -- in our own lives and those of others.
Sharon Salzberg
The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression.
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom.
bell hooks
Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more humane world.
Martin Lowenthal
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Tenzin Gyatso
