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"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."
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"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."
"When you learn to kill animals, you are unconsciously teaching cruelty to other creations."
"Before hurting an animal, feel her pain and see her tears. Then question your conscience."
"Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness, with Christ it brings compassion."
"Approaching others with a loving heart enables you to be more caring, compassionate, and empathetic. What's not to love about that?"
"Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too."
"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."
"You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion."
"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."
"Every peak and valley of your life has led you to deeper understanding and, ultimately, growing compassion."
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"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."
"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."
"If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it."
"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."
"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."
"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."
"The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it."
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