“What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart.”

From the song offered to Geshe Tsaphoua, as quoted in Meditation Techniques of the Buddhist and Taoist Masters (2003) by Daniel Odier, p. 104 https://books.google.it/books?id=9BXTAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA104

Light (1919), Ch. XVI - De Profundis Clamavi

Hagakure (c. 1716)

1930s, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
Source: The World As I See It
Context: How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving....

Source: [Farewell to Venizelos, Time magazine, Monday, Mar. 25, 1935, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,748601-1,00.html] ; Venizelos at the final years of his life.

Source: For Bishop Tschang, the Pope's visit will boost the mission among Thais http://www.asianews.it/news-en/For-Bishop-Tschang,-the-Pope's-visit-will-boost-the-mission-among-Thais-48462.html (2019)

International Business and Leadership Symposium address

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 12 (p. 220)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 331.