Compassion Quotes

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You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy. — Jeff Bridges
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. — Les Brown
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion. — Rita Mae Brown
What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results. — Harry Browne
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can… — Frederick Buechner
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of… — Leo Buscaglia
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. — George W. Bush
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. — Samuel Butler
The dew of compassion is a tear. — Lord Byron
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of… — George Washington Carver
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. — Pablo Casals
Fair and softly goes far. — Miguel de Cervantes
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. — Anton Chekhov
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we… — Deepak Chopra
Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion. — Amy Chua
The price of greatness is responsibility. — Winston Churchill
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within. — Sandra Cisneros
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly… — Leonard Cohen

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