"Until you have real compassion, you cannot recognize love."
- Bob Thurman

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

"One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion."
- Dalai Lama

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

"Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others."
- Yasmin Mogahed

"No one has ever become poor by giving."
- Anne Frank

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
- Mother Teresa

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

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
- John Holmes

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
- John Bunyan

"Compassion is an action word with no boundaries."
- Prince

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."
- Lao Tzu

"Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self."
- Debbie Ford

"We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that."
- Ellen DeGeneres

"God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion."
- Desmond Tutu