Compassion for others is the law of eternal harmony,

the law of eternal love.

-Ramakrishna

Compassion is love expressed in all its fullness.
-Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, "Amma"

Compassion is the practice of unconditional love.
-Heather Mendel

What is compassion 

but love in action,

love in motion?

-Todd Michael

Compassion is being moved
to and by acts of the heart.
-Gary Zukav

The only way to learn compassion
is through your heart.
-Matthew Fox

When understanding is born in me,
compassion is also born.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Compassion is all-inclusive love
and all-inclusive understanding.
-Torkom Saraydarian

Love plus wisdom equals compassion.
-Seung Sahn

Understanding love is compassion.
-Torkom Saraydarian

The more compassion one has in one's heart,
the more the world will begin to look different.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Those who are without compassion
cannot see what is seen
with the eyes of compassion.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

The depth of our compassion
is proportional to the depth of our living.
-Jean-Yves Leloup

Compassion is a state of being

where others's need and concerns

take precedence over all else,

even concern for one's own well-being -

as such compassion is the highest manifestation of love.

-Todd Michael

Make no judgements
where you have no compassion.
-Anne McCaffrey

Claiming the unswept corners of our psyches
leads us to compassion for ourselves and for others.
Knowing we have done our best and it simply wasn't enough
opens our hearts to other human beings who best has likewise failed.
-Marion Woodman

When your fear touches someone's pain
it becomes pity;
when your love touches someone's pain
it becomes compassion.
-Luc de Clapier, Marquis de Vauvenargues

Empathy is your pain in my heart.
-Anonymous

When altruistic love passes through the prism of empathy,

it becomes compassion.

-Matthieu Ricard

Compassion is a verb.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Compassion is an unstable emotion.
It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
-Susan Sontag

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
-Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama

If your compassion does not include yourself,
it is incomplete.
-Jack Kornfield

Only by feeling compassion for yourself
can you feel compassion for others.
-Gary Zukav

When you have learned compassion for yourself,
compassion for others is automatic.
-Henepola Gunaratana

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves,
the circle of compassion for others becomes wider.
-Pema Chodron

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart
of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
-Richard Alpert, "Ram Dass"

The compassionate man knows right action.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

Compassion is defined as conquering
callous, cruel and insensitive feelings toward all beings.
-Sivya Subranmuniyaswami

The whole idea of compassion...
is based on a keen awareness
of the interdependence of all living things,
which are all part of one another,
and all involved in one another.
-Thomas Merton

Compassion, in which all ethics takes root,
can only attain to its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
-Albert Schweitzer

The well taught philosophic mind
To all compassion gives;
Casts round the world an equal eye,
And feels for all that lives.
-Anna Letitia Barbauld

True benevolence or compassion,
extends itself through the whole of existence
and sympathizes with the distress
of every creature capable of sensation.
-Author Unknown

Compassion is a state of consciousness
which feels at one with every life-form
or with the essence of every life-form.
-Torkom Saraydarian

To have compassion means to be in everything, everywhere,
as if everything and everywhere is yourself.
-Torkom Saraydarian

Compassion is the ultimate
and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity.
It is through compassion that a person
achieves the highest peak and the deepest reach
of his or her search for self-fulfillment.
-Arthur Jersild

When a person develops real compassion,
he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself
because compassion is environmental generosity,
without direction, without 'for me' and without 'for them'.
It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy,
constant joy in the sense of truth,
in the sense that joy is tremendous wealth, richness.
-Chogyam Trungpa

The only thing worthy of you is compassion -
invincible, limitless, unconditional.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Compassion arises from the acceptance of human limitation
and by seeing that everyone is really the captive of his or her own worldview.
-David R. Hawkins

The deepest level of compassion arises from understanding
that real human suffering is being unaware
we are responsible for our thoughts, words and deeds.
-Michael Brown

Don't have critical thoughts or try to change them.
Have compassion.
They are who they are, and only they can change themselves.
-Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

To find that saving a man's body or mind from suffering
is not always for the good of either soul, mind or body,
is one of the bitterest of experiences for the humanly compassionate.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Compassion is proportionate to detachment;
otherwise we use others for our own ends under the pretext of love.
-Thomas Merton

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

Compassion is a wound in the heart
whence flows a common love to all mankind
and which cannot be healed so long as any suffering lives in man.
-John van Ruysbroeck

If your mind is liberated,
your heart floods with compassion.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Compassion is no attribute.

It is the Law of Laws -

eternal harmony, Alaya's Self;

a shoreless universal essence,

the light of everlatsing Right,

and finess of all things,

the law of love eternal.

-Helena Blavatsky