The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.
Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.
Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.