Balance Quote by Alice Walker

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing…

— Steven Erikson

Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow…

— Matthew Fox

Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family…

— Dalai Lama

Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.

— Anonymous

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the…

— Henri Nouwen

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Compassion is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace, mental stability and for human survival.

— Dalai Lama

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we…

— Boris Pasternak

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

— Jack Kornfield

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves…

— Krista Tippett