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Letter "C" » Compassion
«The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.»
Author: Arthur H. Stainback
| About:
Compassion,
Value
| Keywords:
believer, borne, burden, cares, compassionate, criticize, emphasized, emphasizes, emphasizing, understands
«There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Compassion
| Keywords:
heavier, heavy, intensified, intensifies, intensify, prolonged, weighs
«Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will»
«When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.»
Author: Peter De Vries
(Editor, Linguist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Compassion
| Keywords:
homes, intact, The Victims, victims
«The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Compassion
| Keywords:
awareness, based, based on, beings, compassion, interdependence, involved, keen, keenest
«The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.-»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Compassion,
Ethics,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
attain, breadth, breadths, depth, embraces, ethics, in breadth, in secret, limit, take root
«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»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Action,
Belief,
Compassion,
Dignity,
Ideas,
Inventions,
Purpose
| Keywords:
Action The, Human dignity, Human heart, invention, national, The Source
«The dew of compassion is a tear.»
«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 wat»
«No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
| About:
Compassion,
Faith,
Generosity
| Keywords:
believer, brother, his brother
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