COMPASSION If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. —The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet

COMPASSION How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong—because someday in life you will have been all of these. –George Washington Carver 20 th -century agriculturalist and educator

COMPASSION We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. –Victor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist

COMPASSION What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? –George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) English novelist of the Victorian era

COMPASSION Compassion comes close to the heart of moral awareness, to see in one’s neighbor another self. –William J. Bennett 21 st -century political and cultural leader