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"To love one's neighbors to love one's enemies to love everything - to love God in all His manifestations - human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love."
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"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."
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"When you learn to kill animals, you are unconsciously teaching cruelty to other creations."
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"Before hurting an animal, feel her pain and see her tears. Then question your conscience."
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"Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness, with Christ it brings compassion."
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"Approaching others with a loving heart enables you to be more caring, compassionate, and empathetic. What's not to love about that?"
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"Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too."
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"A word of consolation may sweetly touch the ear.Now and then a quiet songwill clear the mind of fear.A simple act of kindnesscan ease a load of care.Stories told in memorydiminish all despair.A whispered prayer of comfortdraws angel arms around.Counting blessings, great and small,helps gratitude abound.These acts, all sympathetic,will kindly play their part.But seldom do they dry the tearsshed mutely in the heart."
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"You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion."
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"There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain."
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"Every peak and valley of your life has led you to deeper understanding and, ultimately, growing compassion."
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"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."
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"He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until death came. Darkness covered everything for him; but precisely because of this darkness he felt that his undertaking was the only guiding thread in this darkness, and he seized it and held on to it with all his remaining strength."
Purpose

"What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!"
Philosophy

"Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement."
Spiritual

"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."
Life

"The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically."
Perspective

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself."
Life

"While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything."
Philosophy

"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."
Life

"But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty, and the Duke of Oldenburg hardly treated. We cannot grasp the connections between these circumstances and the bare fact of murder and violence, nor why the duke's wrongs should induce thousands of men from the other side of Europe to pillage and murder the inhabitants of the Smolensk and Moscow provinces and to be slaughtered by them."
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