Quotes with compassion-sweepstakes

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  • Camille Paglia Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak 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
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir 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
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Albert Einstein Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill Williams Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.
    Bill Williams
    American actor
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,
    And Thy pierced feet I clasp;
    Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;
    On me, with compassion fraught,
    Let Thy glances fall.
    Thy cross of agony,
    My Beloved, look on me;
    Turn me wholly unto Thee;
    Be thou whole, say openly:
    I forgive thee all.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • André Maurois Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Brad Henry Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Lord George Byron The dew of compassion is a tear.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Norman Cousins The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Albert Schweitzer The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Bertrand Russell The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Lily Walters The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.
    Lily Walters
     
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  • Thomas Merton 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
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Samuel Johnson The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Milan Kundera There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Anthony de Mello These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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