If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle
of compassion to embrace all read more

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.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then read more

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with read more

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking read more

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.

the train rolls by the cows
grazing in the meadows
.. and they hear the moos
the frightened cries
of read more

the train rolls by the cows
grazing in the meadows
.. and they hear the moos
the frightened cries
of their fellows
captive in the cars.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

The dew of compassion is a tear.