COMPASSION
I expect to pass through the world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again.” — Stephen Grellet, 18th/19th century French/American religious leader

 "Men are only great as they are kind." — Elbert Hubbard, 19th/20th-century American entrepreneur and philosopher (founder of Roycroft)

 "What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18th-century French philosopher

 “A kind word is like a spring day.” — Russian proverb

 "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." — Aesop, ancient Greek moralist

 "If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." — Lucy Larcom

 “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” — Mohandas Gandhi, 20th-century, Nobel Prize-winning, Indian nonviolent civil rights leader

 “One must care about a world one will never see.” — Bertrand Russell, 20th-century British mathematician and philosopher

 “The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.” — Swedish proverb

 “Compassion is the basis of morality.'' — Arnold Schopenhauer, early 19th-century German philosopher

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace." — Albert Schweitzer, early 20th-century German Nobel Peace Prize-winning mission doctor and theologian