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Quotes on Human Compassion

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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Seneca The YoungerRead
World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.
Dalai LamaRead
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai LamaRead
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
David O. MckayRead
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice WalkerRead
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas
John F. KennedyRead
Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.
Henri NouwenRead
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl StreepRead
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry JamesRead
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Richard P. FeynmanRead
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard ShawRead
World peace must develop from inner peace.
Dalai LamaRead
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema ChodronRead
Compassion is the chief law of human existence.
Fyodor DostoevskyRead

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