"The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness."

Maya Angelou

"If you practice compassion, whether you believe in a religion or not, you will come to realize the value of compassion for your own peace of mind. Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives."

HH The Dalai Lama

"A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."

Steve Maraboli

"Compassion is a power that we first bestow on ourselves and then give away through our actions—to people, to our planet. When we recognize this, that is when love becomes our legacy. "

Amanda Gorman

"Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth."

Jim Carrey

"Hurt people, hurt people. That's how pain patterns get passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion and cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future."

Yehuda Berg

"If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."

William Penn

"Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human."

Henri Nouwen

"What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? "

Mary Ann Evans

"There is nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness."

John Connolly

"Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts."

Barbara Garrison

"Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry."

Ryuho Okawa