"Compassion Quotes"

These compassion quotes illustrate the greatest happiness principle and the value beneath the words of compassion in your meditation and everyday life.

These are the quotes:

"Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring us the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else." ... "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

- H.H. the Dalai Lama

"Compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another."

- Thomas Merton

"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."

- Ken Keyes, Jr.

"When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future."

- Bernard Meltzer

"The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow."

– Abraham Lincoln

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