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I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

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.

We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

One of women's greatest values is compassion.

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.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.