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    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.”
    ― Henri J.M. Nouwen
    tags: compassion
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    Mother Teresa
    “Give, but give until it hurts.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: charity, compassion, giving, helping-others
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    Rai Aren
    “I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends - the fear, the terror, the pain - and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being.”
    ― Rai Aren
    tags: animal-rights, animals, compassion, equality, ethical-vegan, kindness, life, life-affirming, speciesism, vegan, veganism, vegetarian, vegetarianism
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    Criss Jami
    “Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: beautiful, christ-like, compassion, consideration, divine-love, divine-works, empathy, faith, giving, god-like, good-works, helping-others, inspirational, jesus, life, poor, sympathy, the-one, unconditional-love, value, works, worth
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Compassion is a verb.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh
    tags: compassion
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    Steve Maraboli
    “When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: compassion, help, judgement, religious
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    Rick Bragg
    “Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
    ― Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'
    tags: compassion, dignity, poverty
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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
    tags: awareness, compassion, learning, politics, relegion, spirituality, work
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    John Bunyan
    “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
    ― John Bunyan
    tags: benevolence, charity, compassion, generosity, helping-others
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    A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
    “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, blessings, compassion, generosity, giving, helping-others, kindness, life, success
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: compassion, ethics, peace, vegetarianism
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    Albert Camus
    “It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
    ― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners
    tags: compassion, death, execution, intelligence, scholars, thinkers
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    Hélder Câmara
    “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
    ― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
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    Mother Teresa
    “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
    ― Mother Teresa, A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations
    tags: christian-values, compassion, inspirational, kindness
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    Jack Kornfield
    “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
    ― Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book
    tags: compassion, self-respect
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.”
    ― Shannon Alder
    tags: betrayal, break-ups, cheating, class, compassion, courtesy, gentleman, honor, ladies, leading-a-woman-on, love, manners, manning-up, men, mixed-signals, players, relationships, respect, respecting-others, respecting-women, true-gentlemen
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, Snow
    tags: compassion, experience, understanding
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    Charles de Lint
    “I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.”
    ― charles de lint
    tags: compassion, helping-others, inspirational, personal-responsibility
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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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    “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: compassion, empathy, loneliness, love
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    Anne Frank
    “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
    ― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness
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    Mother Teresa
    “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: compassion, connecting, humanity, inspirational, love, sharing
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
    tags: inspirational, values
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
    tags: compassion, humanity, love, mankind
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    Emily Dickinson
    “This is my letter to the world
    That never wrote to me”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: compassion, people, social-anxiety
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    Aesop
    “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
    ― Aesop
    tags: compassion, inspirational, kindness
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    Albert Camus
    “I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Plague
    tags: afterlife, compassion, life, religion
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    Horace Mann
    “Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
    ― Horace Mann
    tags: greed, volunteerism
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    Frederick Buechner
    “Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ”
    ― Frederick Buechner
    tags: compassion
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my greatest hope that the pages in this jar stir your deepest well of human compassion. I hope they prompt you to do something, to tell somone. Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
    tags: compassion, evil, goodness
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