Compassionate Quotes — Page 25

Walt Whitman

Poet, Essayist

“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”

Sympathy Funeral Leaves Of Grass

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Kevin Bacon

Actor

“I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes.”

Men Jobs Compassion

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.”

Together Kindness

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Horace Mann

Educator

“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”

Compassion Helping Others

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George Herbert

Poet

“None knows the weight of another's burden.”

Knows Weight Burden

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Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader

“Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.”

People Thinking Needs

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Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader

“Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.”

Thinking Joy Suffering

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Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader

“Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.”

Love Spiritual Forgiveness

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Derren Brown

Illusionist

“A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.”

Order Blood Compassion

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