Quotes with compassion

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  • Kofi Annan Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Bill Hybels God is committed to developing a people who will reflect his character in this world, and his character always expresses concern and compassion for the afflicted.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Brooke Shields Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Maya Angelou 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
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Albert Schweitzer I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Hubert Humphrey I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Georges Bernanos I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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  • Ian McEwan Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.
    (2001)
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Aberjhani In the face of a world where economic hardships often ground the best of the human spirit into the worst, love provided a pathway into hidden chambers of the spirit where nobility and compassion might be salvaged, resurrected, and made stronger.
    The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)
    Aberjhani
    American historian, columnist and novelist (1957 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Barbara Walters It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Bianca Kajlich It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.
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  • Brene Brown It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Leonard Cohen 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 despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Ben Stein Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Anne McCaffrey Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • William Cowper Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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