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Compassion |
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Quotations
 | I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 12 likes |
 | No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 7 likes |
 | Compassion is the basis of morality. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 5 likes |
 | A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general 5 likes |
 | I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain. — Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, Italian Dominican friar & philosopher 4 likes |
 | I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.” — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 4 likes |
 | I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 3 likes |
 | Charity has always eased the conscience of the rich, long before it eased the stomach of the poor. — Alfred Sauvy, 1898-1990, French economist 3 likes |
 | Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity. — Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French writer 3 likes |
 | If you feel pain, you are alive, but if you feel the pain of others, you are human. — Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910, Russian writer 3 likes |
 | All the problems of the world –child labor, corruption– are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion. — Bill Vaughan, 1915-1977, American journalist 1 likes |
 | Although the big word on the left is “compassion,” the big agenda on the left is “dependency”. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 1 likes |
 | One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 1 likes |
 | Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. — Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-Indian nun & missionary 1 likes |
| A life not lived for others is not a life. — Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-Indian nun & missionary 1 likes |
 | If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need, go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones. — John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962 1 likes |
 | Woman is closer to angels than man, because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 1 likes |
 | Very usually, altruism is only the sublimest form of selfishness. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 1 likes |
 | Young people, not having the strength, simulate cynicism, which seems to them a proof of strength. Mature men, having strength, simulate altruism, to conceal their strength. — Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer 1 likes |
| Some take for friendship what is charity — Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer 1 likes |
 | None knows the weight of another’s burthen. — George Herbert, 1593-1633, Welsh poet 1 likes |
 | There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. — Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer 1 likes |
| The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 1 likes |
| One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 1 likes |
Proverbs
 | Charity begins at home. 4 likes |
