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“Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human 'brain' with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human 'heart' with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.”

Dalai Lama quotes (Head of the Dge-lugs-pa order of Tibetan Buddhists, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, b.1935)

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“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”

Abraham J. Heschel quotes (Jewish theologian and philosopher, 1907-1972)

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“For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.”

Paula Cole quotes

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“Make no judgements where you have no compassion.”

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“Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.”

Eric Hoffer quotes (American Writer, 1902-1983)

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“Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.”

Arnold Toynbee quotes (English Economic Historian and social reformer, 1889-1975)

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“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”

Hubert H. Humphrey quotes (American 38th US Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson (1965-69) and US Senator from Minnesota (1949-64, 1971-78). 1911-1978)

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“It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked.”

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Haile Selassie quotes (Ethiopian Statesman and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, 1892-1975)

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“There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.”

Milan Kundera quotes (Czech Novelist, Playwright and Poet, b.1929)

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“By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also”

Thomas Browne, Sr. quotes

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