Central nervous system Quote by Dean Cavanagh

Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

— Joan D. Chittister

Compassion is an alternate perception

— Mary Caroline Richards

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

— Adam Kinzinger

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

— Karen Armstrong

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that…

— Tori Amos

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 a muscle that gets stronger with use.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk…

— Gelek Rimpoche

“Our culture does not emphasize self-compassion, quite the opposite. We’re told that no matter how hard we try, our best just isn’t good enough.…

— Kristin Neff

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

— Susan Sontag

The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

— Dalai Lama

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of…

— Joan Halifax