"Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion." 
-Deng Ming Dao

"We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets." 
-Dalai Lama XIV

"The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion." 

-Pico Iyer

"The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless." 

-Shunryu Suzuki

"World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not the absence of violence; peace is the manifestation of human compassion." 

-Dalai Lama XIV

"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete." 

-Gautama Buddha

“The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.” 

-Dalai Lama XIV

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” 
-Albert Bigelow Paine

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." 

-Dalai Lama XIV

"Wisdom and compassion flow from simplicity and clarity; from having nothing to prove and nothing to defend."
-Barry Magid

"Reasonable–that is, human–men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life." 
-Alan Watts

"To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger, and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all." 
-Thich Thien-An

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." 
-Brian Tracy

"The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be." 
-Dalai Lama XIV

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."
-William Arthur Ward

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us." 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wisdom and compassion flow from simplicity and clarity; from having nothing to prove and nothing to defend." 

-Barry Magid

"All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?"
-Gautama Buddha

“When your fear touches someone’s pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion.”
-Stephen Levine

"Living your life for others, cherishing them with loving kindness and compassion is the door to happiness, the door to enlightenment." 

-Lama Zopa Rinpoche