What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion…

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

— Dalai Lama

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a…

— Dalai Lama

“Some people think that cultivating compassion is good for others but not necessarily for themselves, but this is wrong. You are the one who…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.”

— Orson Scott Card

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

— Thomas Sowell

“Compassion and communication are both incredibly important in relationships, but most of us use these at the wrong time. If we communicate, it's only…

— Vironika Tugaleva

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

— Samuel Johnson

Human rights without responsibility, without a sense of decency, a sense of compassion, is not good enough for a society to flourish... We need…

— Tu Weiming

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're…

— Joan Halifax

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

— Steven Erikson

Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a…

— Dalai Lama

For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so…

— John Calvin

Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

— Tom Morello

Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new ideas of…

— Jane Jacobs

Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and…

— Alphonsus Rodriguez