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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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“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
Lord Byron quotes (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)
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“Compassion is the basis of all morality”
Arthur Schopenhauer quotes (German Philosopher, 1788-1860)
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“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”
Thomas Merton quotes (American and Trappist Monk t Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Trappist, Kentucky, 1915-1968)
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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
Dalai Lama quotes (Head of the Dge-lugs-pa order of Tibetan Buddhists, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, b.1935)
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“Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”
Dalai Lama quotes (Head of the Dge-lugs-pa order of Tibetan Buddhists, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, b.1935)
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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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“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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“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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“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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“The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.”
Arthur H. Stainback quotes
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