Topic
Compassion
Quotes
Kindness Changes Everything.
# Compassion & Emotions
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Context: • Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts, ed. Edna Dean Proctor (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858), p. 294
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, B)
“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Published as a "Roycroft Motto" in Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians (1901) by Elbert Hubbard, p. 105
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, H)
“Men are only great as they are kind.”
— Unknown
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Context: • God cannot suffer, but he can have compassion.
• Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs (1135–1153), Sermon 26, 5; Patrologia Latina, Vol. 183, 906
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, B)
• Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs (1135–1153), Sermon 26, 5; Patrologia Latina, Vol. 183, 906
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, B)
“Impassibilis est Deus, sed non incompassibilis.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Alice Meynell, "Introductory Note" to The Poetry of Pathos & Delight: From the Works of Coventry Patmore; Passages Selected by Alice Meynell (London: William Heinemann, 1906), p. xi.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, M)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, M)
“Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Richard Summerbell, Abnormally Happy (1985).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, S)
“It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.”
— Unknown
# Compassion & Virtues
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Context: • Sumerian proverb, Collection V at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.
• Note: in ancient Mesopotamia, the lion was regarded as a symbol of kingship.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, S)
• Note: in ancient Mesopotamia, the lion was regarded as a symbol of kingship.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, S)
“The lion who lives a life of compassion will receive it.”
— Unknown
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“Compassion is when you see that someone needs help and you wanna help 'em.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Edward Payson, p. 579.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895):
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• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895):
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“I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, F)
“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Abraham Joshua Heschel, in New York Journal-American (5 April 1963).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, H)
“A religious man is a person … whose greatest passion is compassion.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts, ed. Edna Dean Proctor (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858), p. 294
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, B)
“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Published as a "Roycroft Motto" in Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians (1901) by Elbert Hubbard, p. 105
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, H)
“Men are only great as they are kind.”
— Unknown
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Context: • God cannot suffer, but he can have compassion.
• Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs (1135–1153), Sermon 26, 5; Patrologia Latina, Vol. 183, 906
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, B)
• Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs (1135–1153), Sermon 26, 5; Patrologia Latina, Vol. 183, 906
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, B)
“Impassibilis est Deus, sed non incompassibilis.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Alice Meynell, "Introductory Note" to The Poetry of Pathos & Delight: From the Works of Coventry Patmore; Passages Selected by Alice Meynell (London: William Heinemann, 1906), p. xi.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, M)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, M)
“Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Richard Summerbell, Abnormally Happy (1985).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, S)
“It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Sumerian proverb, Collection V at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.
• Note: in ancient Mesopotamia, the lion was regarded as a symbol of kingship.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, S)
• Note: in ancient Mesopotamia, the lion was regarded as a symbol of kingship.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, S)
“The lion who lives a life of compassion will receive it.”
— Unknown
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“Compassion is when you see that someone needs help and you wanna help 'em.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Edward Payson, p. 579.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895):
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• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895):
)
“I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, F)
“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Abraham Joshua Heschel, in New York Journal-American (5 April 1963).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, H)
“A religious man is a person … whose greatest passion is compassion.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Suman Pokhrel, I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity, (An interview with Romain Molina)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, P)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, P)
“I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, as quoted in Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2001) edited by Margaret Gee, p. 71.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, G)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, G)
“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Baghavad Gita, cited in Rajiv Malhotra: Indra's Net. p. 183
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, G)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, G)
“Krishna asserts that generosity (dana) and compassion (daya) are qualities that arise 'from me alone'.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Joseph Butler, Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel (1726), Sermon IV: "Upon Compassion"
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, B)
“Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy; as hunger is a natural call for food.”
— Unknown
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Context: • The Prince and the Pauper, play based on the story by Mark Twain
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Compassion" (Quotes, T)
“I could see their woe and sadness, and I pledged to ease their pain; their suffering would not be in vain.”
— Unknown
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