Compassion opens the heart and makes life deeply meaningful. ✨ Whether for others or ourselves, it is the quiet strength that softens suffering and connects us all.

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. ~ Eric Hoffer

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness. ~ Matthew Fox

It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put in the doing — that’s compassion in action. ~ Mother Teresa

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain. ~ Matthew Fox

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

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things. ~ Thomas Merton

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy. ~ Chögyam Trungpa

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

Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy. ~ Dalai Lama

It’s compassion that makes gods of us. ~ Dorothy Gilman