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Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arnold Schopenhauer


Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
- Anne McCaffrey


A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton


The major block to compassion is the judgment in our minds. Judgment is the mind's primary tool of separation.
- Diane Berke


Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
- Henry Ward Beecher


Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
- HH the Dalai Lama


God saith, Verily my compassion overcometh my wrath.
- Unknown


Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization.
- Albert Schweitzer


Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


He who feels no compassion will become insane.
- Hasidic Proverb


Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
- Bible


The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.
- Everett Dirksen


Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
- William Cowper


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- HH the Dalai Lama


Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
- Giovanni Boccaccio


Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.
- William Wordsworth


Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more humane world.
- Martin Lowenthal


Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
- Friedrich Nietzsche


One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
- Simone de Beauvoir


Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
- Eric Hoffer


I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.
- Thomas Aquinas


I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
- Bishop Desmond


I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
- Unknown


Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
- Buddha


With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair


I should have no compassion on these witches, I should burn them all.
- Martin Luther


The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.
- Everett Dirksen


Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight - this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain


It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
- Erma Bombeck


Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
- George W. Bush


The dew of compassion is a tear.
- Lord Byron


If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis


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


Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
- Hubert H. Humphrey


Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
- Simone Weil


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