Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universe self.

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

Compassion is a verb.

I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

Compassion simply stated is leaving other people alone.

Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will assuredly injure no one, do harm to no one, encroach on no man's rights; he will rather have regard for every one, forgive every one, help every one as far as he can, and all his actions will bear the stamp of justice and loving-kindness.