compassion quotes

• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. (Andre Maurois) [happiness/consolation/fool]
• I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. (Maya Angelou) [willpower/consolation/give/water]
• Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. (Arnold Bennett) [consolation]
• Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ( Confucius) [wisdom/consolation/courage/men]
• Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. (Eric Hoffer) [consolation/consolation]
• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. (Victor Hugo) [books/people/consolation/life]
• Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere. (Victor Hugo) [consolation/look/life/punishment]
• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. (Samuel Johnson) [consolation]
• Compassion is no substitute for justice. (Rush Limbaugh) [consolation/]
• In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. (Martin Luther) [condition/consolation/life]
• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. (Andre Maurois) [happiness/consolation/fool]
• Make no judgments where you have no compassion. (Anne McCaffrey) [consolation]
• We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office. (Desmond Morris) [chance/consolation/willpower/office]
• No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. (Boris Pasternak) [feeling/consolation/more/love]
• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. (Albert Schweitzer) [consolation/willpower/find/]
• The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others. (Albert Schweitzer) [human/life/consolation/willpower]
• I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, ... My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man. (Cary Elwes) [mother/remember/consolation/spirit]
• “You know, here we were, all of us doomed, I thought -- the whole country doomed -- and here, in what he was dictating to me there was not one word of compassion or regret, only awful, awful anger. I remember thinking, ?My God, he hasn't learned anything. It's all just the same.'” (Adolf Hitler) [consolation/remember/thinking/god]
• I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful. (Kyra Sedgwick) [exercise/consolation]
• I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might. (Tea Leoni) [think/character/consolation]
• “In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said. ” (Gregory Peck) [art/consolation/consolation]
• The dew of compassion is a tear. (George Gordon Byron) [consolation]
• The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion. (Julian Bond) [war/consolation]
• Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans. (Robert Wagner) [more/love/consolation]
• Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us. (Christy Turlington) [yoga/consolation/being]

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