“What’s the point in having a heart if you don’t use it to spare others from the harsh judgments of your mind?”— Sarah J. Maas, Dorian Havilliard, amazon.com
“I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of human rights”— Desmond Tutu, bbc.com
“Madam, in God's presence I speak: I never delighted in the weeping of any of God's creatures; yea I can scarcely well abide the tears of my own boys whom my own hand corrects, much less can I rejoice in your Majesty's weeping.”— John Knox, en.wikiquote.org
“Empathy is the skill or ability to tap into our own experiences in order to connect with an experience someone is relating to us. Compassion is the willingness to be open to this process.”— Brené Brown, twitter.com
“If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.”— Jennifer Nettles, theboot.com
“Are you a man? Then you should have an human heart. But have you indeed? What is your heart made of? Is there no such principle as Compassion there? Do you never feel another's pain? Have you no Sympathy? No sense of human woe? No pity for the miserable? When you saw the flowing eyes, the heaving br…”— John Wesley, amazon.com
“The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself, and less from others. Go thou and do likewise!”— John Wesley, en.wikiquote.org
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members ... a heart of grace and a soul generated by love.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“Find someone who loves you well. Someone who never belittles you. Even in the heat of an argument. Someone who is gentle with you, but does not treat you like you are fragile. Someone who knows what you are capable of, and celebrates those pieces of you. Not someone who is intimidated by your streng…”— Sanjay Gupta, amazon.com
“If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“Women are only worthy of basic respect in relation to men. Without wives, daughters, sisters and granddaughters, would men be unable to muster some base-level compassion for female human beings?... There seems to be this idea out there that men can only understand sexism, rape or harassment if they…”— Emily Peck, huffingtonpost.com
“I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you.”— Azra T., goodreads.com
“Kinder than is necessary. Because it’s not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.”— R.J. Palacio, amazon.com
“Being tolerant does not mean that I share another’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.”— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the one thing left to us in a bad time.”— E. B. White, en.wikiquote.org