Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. Arnold Toynbee
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. William Cowper
Compassion is no substitute for justice. Rush Limbaugh
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. Eric Hoffer
Compassion is the basis of all morality. Arthur Schopenhauer
By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. Thomas Browne
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. Milan Kundera