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  • 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.

    Lonely   Hurt   Pain  
    Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK
  • Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

  • 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 (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

    Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam
  • Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

    Henri J. M. Nouwen, John S. Mogabgab (2012). “A Spirituality of Living: The Henri Nouwen Spirituality Series”, p.32, Upper Room Books
  • Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

    Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.84, Simon and Schuster
  • I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

  • To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

    Karma   Animal   Rights  
    Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.361, GENERAL PRESS
  • Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition”, p.129, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

  • We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

    Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications
  • Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

    Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications
  • There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and it has weakened me. But no more. Tonight I will once again feast on fear and suffering. My appetite for agony will be awakened. I will once again taste the pain of others. I will feast on the fear of the innocent, and that is the sweetest taste of all. Tonight I hunger for a sacrifice.

  • Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

    Alice Walker (1997). “Possessing the Secret of Joy”, p.288, Simon and Schuster
  • Hey!" I exclaimed, seeing the total. "They're charging me retail. Glenn!" I complained. "They can't do that." I shook it at him. "I shouldn't have to pay retail!" "What did you expect? You can keep that. It's your copy." I sat back in a huff and shoved it in my bag with my sticky scarf as he typed his slow, painful way through my report. "Where's this human compassion I keep hearing about?" "That's it, baby doll," he said, voice smoother than usual. He was laughing at me.

    Baby   Compassion   Voice  
    Kim Harrison (2013). “Black Magic Sanction”, p.35, HarperCollins UK
  • There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of the most important factors is human compassion and affection: a sense of caring.

  • Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

    "Henry James: A Life". Book by Leon Edel. Volume 5: "The Master 1901-1916", 1972.
  • The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

    Dog   Nature   Greatness  
  • Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

  • All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

    Love   Loneliness   Heart  
    Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me”, p.38, Harper Collins
  • If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

    Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image
  • We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

  • We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

    Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press
  • Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

    "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Jan. 25-31)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.
  • Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

    "A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.
  • The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.

    Jack Zipes (2013). “When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition”, p.1, Routledge
  • I would like to believe that it is, and will continue to be, human compassion for other beings that will result in our giving them the protection they deserve, because of who they are, not because of what they can do for us or because some law tells us what we have to do.

    "Who Lives and Who Dies: We All Care About Animals, Right?" by Marc Bekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.
  • The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

    Meaningful   Nature   Men  
    "The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery". Book by Marjorie Spiegel, Foreword, 1996.
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