COMPASSION
Usually, our concept of compassion or love refers to the feeling of closeness we have with our friends and loved ones.
Sometimes compassion also carries a sense of pity.This is wrong, any love or compassion which entails looking down on the other is not genuiine compassion.
To be genuine, compassion must be based on the respect for the other and on realization that others have a right to be happy and overcome suffering, just as much as you.
On this basis since you see that others are suffering, you develop a genuine sense of concern for them.
H.H. The XIVth Dalai Lama