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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
- Dalai Lama

"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."
- Hoffer, Eric

"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."
- Berger, John

"Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms."
- Unknown, Source

"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners."
- Cibber, Colley

"Make no judgments where you have no compassion."
- Mccaffrey, Anne

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
- Beecher, Willard

"The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose."
- Walters, Lily

"The dew of compassion is a tear."
- Byron, Lord

"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will."
- Cowper, William

"Compassion is no substitute for justice."
- Limbaugh, Rush

"Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!"
- Paglia, Camille

"He who feels no compassion will become insane."
- Unknown, Source

"Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart."
- Cook, Joseph

"Conscience is a man's compass."
- Gogh, Vincent Van

"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world."
- Schaeffer, Francis

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."
- Confucius

"Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion."
- Bennett, Arnold

"Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass."
- Santaguida, Paul

"Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented."
- Heine, Heinrich

"They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night."
- Joubert, Joseph

"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty."
- Johnson, Samuel

"The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion."
- Dirksen , Everett M.

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

"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
- Scott, Sir Walter

"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."
- Eckhart, Meister

"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
- Schweitzer, Albert

"A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart."
- Townsend, Robert

"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."
- Channing, William Ellery

"Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy."
- Trungpa, Chogyam

"Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace."
- Thant , U.

"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool."
- Maurois, Andre

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
- Beauvoir, Simone De

"But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock."
- Huxley, Aldous

"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."
- Cousins, Norman

"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

"Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives."
- Bhagavad Gita

"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
- Addison, Joseph

"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."
- Humphrey, Hubert H.

"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love."
- Gibran, Kahlil

"If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow."
- KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

"News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news."
- Disraeli, Benjamin

"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"
- Merton, Thomas

"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true."
- Cohen, Leonard

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."
- Kundera, Milan

"When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer."
- Burke, Edmund

"The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands."
- Stainback, Arthur H.

"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."
- Russell, Bertrand

"No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim."
- Pasternak, Boris

"The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture."
- Hazlitt, William

"Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom."
- Lyman, Edward R.

"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."
- Dietrich, Marlene

"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."
- Angelou, Maya

"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all."
- Conrad, Joseph

"When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable."
- Thich Nhat Hanh