Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things. 
--Thomas Merton 
Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. 
It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and deepest 
reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment. --Arthur Jersild 
Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. 
Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest 
human and divine energies. --Matthew Fox 
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, 
tolerance, humility, forgiveness. --H.H. the Dalai Lama 
Always treat others as you'd like to be treated youreself ... Don't do to others 
what you would not like them to do to you. --Karen Armstrong