“All beings seek for happiness; so let your compassion extend itself to all.”

“Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”

“Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness. As with compassion, when cultivating loving-kindness it is important to start by taking a specific individual as a focus of our meditation, and we then extend the scope of our concern further and further, to eventually encompass and embrace all sentient beings. Again, we begin by taking a neutral person, a person who inspires no strong feelings in us, as our object of meditation. We then extend this meditation to individual friends and family members and, ultimately, our particular enemies.We must use a real individual as the focus of our meditation, and then enhance our compassion and loving-kindness toward that person so that we can really experience compassion and loving-kindness toward others. We work on one person at a time.”

“Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.”

“True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation”

“Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.”

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”